abbccdda commented on a change in pull request #8677: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8677#discussion_r426380898
########## File path: streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/internals/InternalTopicManager.java ########## @@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ public InternalTopicManager(final Admin adminClient, final StreamsConfig streams "This can happen if the Kafka cluster is temporary not available. " + "You can increase admin client config `retries` to be resilient against this error.", retries); log.error(timeoutAndRetryError); - throw new StreamsException(timeoutAndRetryError); + throw new TaskMigratedException("Time out for creating internal topics", new TimeoutException(timeoutAndRetryError)); Review comment: I took a look at the codepath, and have some doubts on whether we could be able to complete the assignment because if the internal topic creations failed, we don't have valid sub partitions to be assigned correct? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org