Github user HeartSaVioR commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1335#issuecomment-216477509
`max.block.ms` is not available for 0.8.x so IMO it would be not good to
change storm-kafka module to strictly support 0.9 or higher. Users who use
Kafka 0.9 or higher could use storm-kafka-client even though storm-kafka is not
compatible with 0.9, but not opposite.
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