Thanks Vahid, +1 (predictably). Worth mentioning in the KIP that compatibility with older brokers (0.10.0 and later) is another feature that will only be supported by the Java consumer.
Ismael On 5 Jan 2017 8:10 pm, "Vahid S Hashemian" <vahidhashem...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > There was some discussion recently on deprecating the old consumer ( > https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@kafka.apache.org/msg59084.html). > Ismael suggested to cover the discussion and voting of major deprecations > like this under a KIP. > > So I started KIP-109 ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-109%3A+Old+Consumer+ > Deprecation > ) and look forward to your feedback and comments. > > We'd like to implement this deprecation in the upcoming 0.10.2.0 release. > > Thanks. > --Vahid > >