Jay Kreps created KAFKA-1292: -------------------------------- Summary: Command-line tools should print what they do as part of their usage command Key: KAFKA-1292 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1292 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Jay Kreps
It would be nice if you could get an explanation for each tool by running the command with no arguments. Something like bin/kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh is a little scary so it would be nice to have it self-describe: > bin/kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh This command attempts to return leadership to the preferred replicas (if they are alive) from whomever is currently the leader). Option Description ------ ----------- --alter Alter the configuration for the topic. ... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)