When will Spark Streaming supports Kafka-simple consumer API?

[Xuelin Cao]

Hi,

     In our environment, Kafka can only be used with simple consumer API,
like storm spout does.

     And, also, I found there are suggestions that " Kafka connector of
Spark should not be used in production
<http://markmail.org/message/2lb776ta5sq6lgtw> because it is based on the
high-level consumer API of Kafka."

    So, my question is, when will spark streaming supports Kafka simple
consumer API?