Divij Vaidya

Rebased from trunk to fix conflicts.

@mimaison I have rebased from trunk ✅

Unrelated test failures since they are known to be flaky as per https://ge.apache.org/scans/tests?search.rootProjectNames=kafka&search.tags=trunk&search.timeZoneId=Europe%2FBerlin ``` [Build / JDK 17 and Scala 2.13 / org.apache.kafka.connect.mirror.integration.IdentityReplicationIntegrationTest.testReplicateFromLatest()](https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Kafka/job/kafka-pr/job/PR-12228/12/testReport/junit/org.apache.kafka.connect.mirror.integration/IdentityReplicationIntegrationTest/Build___JDK_17_and_Scala_2_13___testReplicateFromLatest__/) [Build / JDK 17 and Scala 2.13...

@MPeli what is the latest on this one?

@sjetha you should probably send an email to the [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) mailing list, explaining the urgency and asking for someone to take a look at this.

Dropped by to request an update to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Setup+Kafka+Website+on+Local+Apache+Server and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Contributing+Website+Documentation+Changes (the latter is linked from https://kafka.apache.org/contributing.html ) after this PR is merged.

@dajac please take a look!

@ijuma would you please take a look when you get a chance?

@dajac @philipnee please review again (and restart the tests) when you get a chance! Thank you. Unrelated test failures. UnitTest are successful in my local environment. Failing integration tests are...

Thank you @dajac for your patience through this PR. It took a long time but it would definitely improve consumers! Cheers!