Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/938#issuecomment-125523242
I think the current code (pre this pull request) does not tolerate missing
barriers. Missing barriers can happen at startup time, when one source took
much longer to start than the other sources.
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