Github user BrainLogic commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3035 I caught yours idea and together with the argument which I mentioned above - users will not extensively use 8 version of kafka connector, I agree with this proposal. Let me finish this jira, I can create fix based on yours proposal and try to implement test tonight.
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