Github user kailashhd commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5992#discussion_r187630051 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kinesis/config/ConsumerConfigConstants.java --- @@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ public SentinelSequenceNumber toSentinelSequenceNumber() { public static final String STREAM_TIMESTAMP_DATE_FORMAT = "flink.stream.initpos.timestamp.format"; /** The base backoff time between each describeStream attempt. */ - public static final String STREAM_DESCRIBE_BACKOFF_BASE = "flink.stream.describe.backoff.base"; --- End diff -- Would it be better to include a new set of constants for listShards? Semantically this is equivalent, so having the same names for listShards should be okay but a little bit confusing.
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