Github user harshach commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1570
@darionyaphet given that old consumer api is deprecated and we've new
storm-kafka-client lets get our development efforts with storm-kafka-client.
Unless there is a bug I am against adding any new features to storm-kafka.
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