Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/879#issuecomment-118010176
Concerning deterministic results: I think it is fair as an initial
restriction that determinism works only, if they have event timestamps from
before entering Flink, i.e. timestamps assigned by the original producer that
pushed into Kafka.
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