Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1039#issuecomment-133470243
This needs to go into 0.9.1, so the diamond operators are going to be a
problem
There is no difference, currently, between the 0.8.2 and the 0.8.1 Kafka
consumers. Should we even differentiate between them, or only port the
`PersistentKafkaSource` to extend the `FlinkKafkaConsumer`
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