Hi All, I am new to the Kafka developer community. After learning more about Kafka's transactional capabilities recently, I became interested in exploring what would be required to provide support for the XA interface specified in the X/ Open Distributed Processing Model in the Kafka producer client. I have put together a proof of concept to satisfy my curiosity, and based on that work, I think that extending the Kafka producer with XA support is doable with reasonable effort.
As I understand the Kafka development team's process, the first step in the process would be to produce a KIP describing the feature's goals and design. My question in this email is whether XA support has ever been considered previously by the PMC and if so, with what result. I don't want to spend time working on a KIP if XA support is not something that the PMC sees value in including and supporting in the Kafka codebase. Any feedback would be appreciated. I am excited to work on this feature if there is interest in the community. Regards, Rowland
