GitHub user vahidhashemian reopened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1020
KAFKA-2273: Sticky partition assignment strategy This PR implements a new partition assignment strategy called "sticky", and it's purpose is to balance partitions across consumers in a way that minimizes moving partitions around, or, in other words, preserves existing partition assignments as much as possible. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/vahidhashemian/kafka KAFKA-2273 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1020.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1020 ---- commit 2a48c9fbf9260d6c8659a97ae2c8673607badd13 Author: Vahid Hashemian <vahidhashem...@us.ibm.com> Date: 2016-02-18T13:44:17Z KAFKA-2273: Sticky partition assignment strategy This PR implements a new partition assignment strategy called "sticky", and it's purpose is to balance partitions across consumers in a way that minimizes moving partitions around, or in other words, preserving partition assignments as much as possible. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---