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Voting thread: [VOTE] KIP-379: Multiple Consumer Group Management

JIRA: 

PULL REQUEST: #5726

Non-binding votes: 4 (Gwen Shapira, Ryanne Dolan, Jason Gustafson, Vahid Hashemian) 
Binding votes: 1 (Damian Guy)

JIRA: 

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Motivation

1) Running a set of commands like `--describe`, `--delete` or `--reset-offsets` for every single consumer group appears to be quite a tedios, time and memory consuming task. Each time you have to start a separate JVM to perform a query for a single group or spend some time writing your own client code. 

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