GitHub user MayureshGharat opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/503
KAFKA-2805 Removed the check for only those expiring batches whose metadata is unavailable. Now the batches will be expired irrespective of whether the leader is available or not, as soon as it reaches the requestimeout threshold. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/MayureshGharat/kafka kafka-2805 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/503.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 #503 ---- commit 573c68b9ee3107a50c96d383e22dd415fc39b96f Author: Mayuresh Gharat <mgha...@mgharat-ld1.linkedin.biz> Date: 2015-11-12T01:42:46Z Removed the check for only those expiring batches whose metadata is unavailable. Now the batches will be expired irrespective of whether the leader is available or not, as soon as it reaches the requestimeout threshold ---- --- 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. ---