[jira] [Resolved] (KAFKA-2110) Doc: Clarify that max number of consumer instances is per consumer group

["Jun Rao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jun Rao resolved KAFKA-2110.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 0.8.3
         Assignee: Peter Vandenabeele

Thanks for reporting this. Fix the documentation for 0.8.3.

> Doc: Clarify that max number of consumer instances is per consumer group
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-2110
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2110
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>         Environment: Online documentation:
> http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction
>            Reporter: Peter Vandenabeele
>            Assignee: Peter Vandenabeele
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 0.8.3
>
>
> Suggest to modify in the Introduction, section "Consumers" to clarify that the maximum amount of consumer instances is *per consumer group*:
> "Note however that there cannot be more consumer instances than partitions."
> =>
> "Note however that there cannot be more consumer instances in a consumer group than partitions."
> and
> "... though this will mean only one consumer process." 
> =>
> "... though this will mean only one consumer process per consumer group."



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