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Current state: Under Discussion

Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

JIRA: here [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket]

https://lists.apache.org/thread/d4r4g9hqfmwpckdk9j01n7dh5y25j11n

JIRA:

Motivation

Flaky tests are an ever-present problem in the Apache Kafka build. The presence of flaky tests erodes confidence in our test results which leads to many problems, both social and technical. When developers are used to seeing "red" results from the CI system, they are more likely to miss or ignore a significant test failure. The constant need for re-running the test suite in order to gain reasonable confidence puts a lot of burden on our test infrastructure – leading to very real costs. 

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