Status

Current state: Under DiscussionAccepted

Discussion thread: TBD here

JIRA: here
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9638
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6520 here, here

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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Close() called on ERROR or PENDING_ERROR will be idempotent no-op and not throw an exception but we will log a warning.

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