Github user srdo commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2147#discussion_r119422491 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java --- @@ -170,10 +182,13 @@ private void initialize(Collection<TopicPartition> partitions) { final long fetchOffset = doSeek(tp, committedOffset); setAcked(tp, fetchOffset); } - initialized = true; + + task.start(); --- End diff -- As far as I recall the KafkaConsumer won't let you commit messages to partitions the consumer is not assigned, so committing after onPartitionsRevoked won't work. I think it would be a nicer solution to eliminate most rebalances by switching to manual partition assignment
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