Github user srdo commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1428#issuecomment-220071724
You're right, I forgot about backwards compatibility, I mainly wanted to
ensure this doesn't pop up in other spouts :) Is there any way for the Kafka
spout to register with Kryo instead?
How about a comment on the SpoutOutputCollector interface about this?
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