On: KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Met...

[mayank]

Note: this is not about replacing ZooKeeper in general with Kafka as the title might suggest, it's about Kafka considering an alternative to its internal use of ZooKeeper:

"Currently, Kafka uses ZooKeeper to store its metadata about partitions and brokers, and to elect a broker to be the Kafka Controller. We would like to remove this dependency on ZooKeeper. This will enable us to manage metadata in a more scalable and robust way, enabling support for more partitions. It will also simplify the deployment and configuration of Kafka"

[sonabinu → mayank]

The current heading is ambiguous as well.

[jimktrains2 → sonabinu]

Honestly, the new one is even less informative than the original.

[tus88 → jimktrains2]

Well if the original gave the impression that kafka and zk were the same kind of software it must have been pretty bad.