[FLINK-25818] Add explanation how Kafka Source deals with idleness when parallelism is higher then the number of partitions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.13.6, 1.14.4, 1.15.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka, Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Martijn Visser
• Reporter: Martijn Visser
• Created: 26/Jan/22 09:51
• Updated: 09/Feb/22 08:11
• Resolved: 01/Feb/22 08:55

Description

Add a section to the Kafka Source documentation to explain what happens with the Kafka Source with regards to idleness when parallelism is higher then the number of partitions

Issue Links

• duplicates: FLINK-25706 Add idleness to Kafka Source documentation
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #18502
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #18519
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #18520