GitHub user ewencp opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/480
KAFKA-2792: Don't wait for a response to the leave group message when closing the new consumer. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ewencp/kafka kafka-2792-fix-blocking-consumer-close Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/480.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #480 ---- commit a781fba82af6a6224f441885e22d3d6b35fc96f0 Author: Ewen Cheslack-Postava <m...@ewencp.org> Date: 2015-11-10T02:56:08Z KAFKA-2792: Don't wait for a response to the leave group message when closing the new consumer. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---