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Current state: "Under Discussion"

Discussion thread: on mail-archives.apache.org TBD

JIRA: KAFKA-6048

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

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The broker uses −1 as a default value for missing timestamp. Which might be a correct value set by the user: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 11:59:59 PM UTC.

 Prosed behavior is to ignore that problem and it is a choice of the user to:

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If we are changing behavior how will we phase out the older behavior? —

We are not changing the behavior in the way we would need to phase out the older behavior. 

If we need special migration tools, describe them here.

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When will we remove the existing behavior?

—No need.

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.

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