Increase default offset retention to 7 days #170
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Our use case is to handle topics that are not produced to during weekends, while we might do maintenance work that restarts all consumers in a group.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3806 says "Offset retention should be always greater than log retention." but that's mathematically difficult in our case :)
I found https://www.ctheu.com/2017/08/07/looking-at-kafka-s-consumers-offsets/ worthwhile.