GitHub user dguy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2758
KAFKA-4925: delay initial rebalance of consumer group [WiP] Add new broker config, `group.initial.rebalance.delay.ms`, with a default of 3 seconds. When a consumer creates a new group, set the group's state to InitialRebalance and delay the rebalance until `min(group.initial.rebalance.delay.ms, rebalanceTimeout)`. As other members join the group further delay the rebalance by `min(group.initial.rebalance.delay.ms, remainingRebalanceTimeout)`. Once `rebalanceTimeout` is hit or no new members join the group within the delay, complete the rebalance. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dguy/kafka kafka-4925 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2758.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 #2758 ---- commit 26acb81e51c3485c01e2d4f3b5fea50afa957574 Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-03-29T13:05:59Z delay initial rebalance of consumer group ---- --- 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. ---