KIP-1209 — Add configuration to control internal topic creation in Kafka Connect

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Adds a configuration flag to Kafka Connect workers to control whether internal topics (config, offsets, status) are automatically created if missing, defaulting to the current auto-create behavior. Auto-creation can corrupt an existing Connect cluster if a misconfigured worker starts against a wrong cluster or if partially deleted topics get silently recreated with wrong partition counts or replication factors.

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