THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).
Motivation
As part of the KIP-500 initiative, we need to build a bridge release version of Kafka that could isolate the direct Zookeeper write access only to the controller. Protocols that alter cluster/topic configurations, security configurations or quotas, topics etc, should be migrated for sure as they are still relying on arbitrary broker to Zookeeper write access.
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