Hi there, I'm Boyang who is a newbie contributor to Kafka. I would like to start a vote for the KIP-245:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-245%3A+Use+Properties+instead+of+StreamsConfig+in+KafkaStreams+constructor This is linked with JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6386 [KAFKA-6386] Deprecate KafkaStreams constructor taking ...<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6386> issues.apache.org Currently, KafkaStreams constructor has overloads that take either Properties or StreamsConfig a parameters. Because StreamsConfig is immutable and is created from a ... And my pull request is here: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4354 Since this is my first time doing this, feel free to let me know if this is the correct format! Best, Boyang