Status

Current state: Under Discussion Accepted

Discussion thread: (pending) here

JIRA: 

Draft PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5257

Release: 2.1

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Further, at this point, it seems that most applications will either want to accept the default segment interval (which is scaled to the retention period), or to select a specific size. In support of this, I propose to replace the "segments" nomenclature in Windows with "segmentInterval" as well. This has the beneficial side effect of correcting the accidental exposure of Windows.segments as a public mutable field.

Proposed Public Interface Change

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