Sure, it's only an issue insofar as it may be a flaky test. If it's fixable or disable-able for a possible next RC that could be helpful.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 2:09 AM Shixiong(Ryan) Zhu <shixi...@databricks.com> wrote: > Sean, "stress test for failOnDataLoss=false" is because Kafka consumer > may be thrown NPE when a topic is deleted. I added some logic to retry on > such failure, however, it may still fail when topic deletion is too > frequent (the stress test). Just reopened > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18588. > > Anyway, this is just a best effort to deal with Kafka issue, and in > practice, people won't delete topic frequently, so this is not a release > blocker. > > > >