rebalance_timeout_ms defaults to -1

[erszcz]

https://erszcz.medium.com/ee4a2091255a describes an interop issue between Redpanda and Elixir Kaffe / Erlang Brod client libs. @senior7515 pointed out it might be worth tracking here if the default value of rebalance_timeout_ms is changed from -1 to avoid such issues in case of less-than-perfect client behaviour.

@zmstone pointed out that Kafka defaults to session timeout if rebalance timeout is not provided by the client - maybe it's a good idea to do the same.

By the way, thanks for a great piece of software!

[dotnwat]

Thanks @erszcz will take a look!

[Nezteb]

There have been about two major releases since this issue was created. Is this still needed? (Just checking)

[dotnwat]

Hey @Nezteb I know of at least one user of the erlang library that had some problems with SCRAM auth, but that is fixed now. I've not heard anything related to this timeout. I'll close this ticket since it is so old, but please feel free to open again if there is an issue with the erlang client.