Hello Werner,
1) Regarding the long transaction, we did discuss about this in the design
doc (
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Jqy_GjUGtdXJK94XGsEIK7CP1SnQGdp2eF0wSw9ra8/edit#bookmark=id.z9b0a6k2a3zm),
and as stated the main reason we chose to go with the current design is to
preserve offset
While the new transactional consistency feature is definitely a move into the
right direction, I find the current design limitations quite severe.
Understandable but severe.
First is the offset being the add-time, not the commit time. The consequence of
that is, if one transactional producer ad
