This will ease the Kafka cluster upgrade(s), as we can run a 0.9 MirrorMaker using --new.consumer to consume from a 1.x cluster and produce to a 0.9 cluster. We can then upgrade Kafka main and get a stable 1.x MirrorMaker for main -> jumbo before proceeding with the analytics to jumbo Kafka client migrations.
This will also allow us to remove old graphite based MirrorMaker dashboards and metrics.