Hey everyone, We've been testing the Kafka Connect connector from the 1.5.0 release, and unfortunately, it seems it's still not ready for use. We're not quite up to date on its current status.
We've noticed that three pull requests have been merged so far: #8701, #9466, and #9641. There's also a discussion in the comments of PR #9641 about holding off on supporting upsert and CDC until we've thoroughly analyzed all the gaps: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9641#issuecomment-1970183410 At least to make the connector usable for append operations only, it seems we still need to work on the commit coordinator and integration tests. What's the plan for addressing this? We're eager to pitch in and contribute. Additionally, could we aim for a 1.6.0 release to at least have a usable connector for append operations? We'd also like to discuss the gaps related to upsert (equality deletes) and brainstorm potential solutions, as CDC is a crucial feature for the connector. Could we also set up an issue tracker to keep track of what tasks are completed and what's still pending? - Ajantha
