GitHub user kawamuray opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1707
KAFKA-4024 KafkaProducer should not initialize metadata with current timestamp Issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4024 Solves the problem that the first metadata update of KafkaProducer takes `retry.backoff.ms` to complete. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/kawamuray/kafka KAFKA-4024-metadata-backoff Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1707.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1707 ---- commit fc02b2381c9eb90a75fd0da338596679bd764a31 Author: Yuto Kawamura <kawamuray.dad...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-08-06T09:25:29Z KAFKA-4024 KafkaProducer should not initialize metadata with current timestamp ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---