Hi Matthew, The justification for the deprecation is explained in KIP-750
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/P4vOCg If you are referring to this page below, you can document what works for you and the changes you made to get it to work and then send in a pull request https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart You can follow the guidelines here to set up the website locally for validation before sending in your pull request for the site docs changes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Setup+Kafka+Website+on+Local+Apache+Server If you are still on Java 8, I would recommend switching to 17 LTS or 11 LTS if 17 is not possible prior to running the quickstart I hope this helps Thank you in advance for your contribution. On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 6:18 PM Glassman, Matthew S <glass...@hsrc.unc.edu> wrote: > Hello folks, > > As a course I'm involved with has us using the quickstart on the kafka > website, it seems that the instructions for creating a topic are in need of > an update. As they are currently written, a user will receive an error on > linux stating that they are missing required parameter --partitions. If > they add that, they will then receive an error stating that the command is > missing required parameter --replications-factor. After that the command > still won't work unless the --topic <topic name> is in the last position > from my experience. > > It was mentioned that the latest version of Kafka deprecates the need for > Java 8 and yet the quickstart instructions state that users will need Java > 8. Can someone explain to me in what usage Java 8 is deprecated as the > two statements seem at odd with each other. > > > Matthew Glassman > > >
