Github user bdesert commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/3078
@joewitt , @patricker
While working on implementations, I faced a problem of penalization on
failure.
Some processors are penalizing FF on failure, some do only on rollback,
some gives you a choice whether to penalize or not on failure.
Use Case:
FetchFile -> transform -> PutHiveStreaming
On PutHiveStreaming failure -> 1) wait 1 min + retry, 2) create a table
(puthiveql will make you overwrite content, so you cannot do that sequentially).
There are more use, fo now I do like this:

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