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Neha Narkhede commented on KAFKA-1753: -------------------------------------- [~Dmitry Pekar] It will help to know how you are thinking of implementing this? Decommissioning a broker involves moving all partitions away from it and evenly distributing those onto the remaining brokers. This is done mainly to ensure that the replication factor does not drop when the broker is removed or brought down. > add --decommission-broker option > -------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1753 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1753 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: tools > Reporter: Dmitry Pekar > Assignee: Dmitry Pekar > Fix For: 0.8.3 > > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)