see if requiring producer acks eliminates the need for waitUntilLeaderOffset calls in tests

Author: cody koeninger <cody@koeninger.org>

Closes #5921 from koeninger/kafka-0.8.2-test-cleanup and squashes the following commits:

1e89dc8 [cody koeninger] Merge branch 'master' into kafka-0.8.2-test-cleanup
4662828 [cody koeninger] [Streaming][Kafka] filter mima issue for removal of method from private test class
af1e083 [cody koeninger] Merge branch 'master' into kafka-0.8.2-test-cleanup
4298ac2 [cody koeninger] [Streaming][Kafka] update comment to trigger jenkins attempt
1274afb [cody koeninger] [Streaming][Kafka] see if requiring producer acks eliminates the need for waitUntilLeaderOffset calls in tests