We currently have a contrib package for consuming and producing messages from mapreduce ( https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tree;f=contrib;h=e53e1fb34893e733b10ff27e79e6a1dcbb8d7ab0;hb=HEAD ).
We keep running into problems (e.g. KAFKA-946) that are basically due to the fact that the Kafka committers don't seem to mostly be Hadoop developers and aren't doing a good job of maintaining this code (keeping it tested, improving it, documenting it, writing tutorials, getting it moved over to the more modern apis, getting it working with newer Hadoop versions, etc). A couple of options: 1. We could try to get someone in the Kafka community (either a current committer or not) who would adopt this as their baby (it's not much code). 2. We could just let Camus take over this functionality. They already have a more sophisticated consumer and the producer is pretty minimal. So are there any people who would like to adopt the current Hadoop contrib code? Conversely would it be possible to provide the same or similar functionality in Camus and just delete these? -Jay
