Did this ever get traction? https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=summary shows activity in the 0.7 branch but the last tag as kafka-0.7.2-incubating-candidate-5
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-dev/201302.mbox/%3cce36b916-a8b9-40c3-8a0e-958397c17...@gmail.com%3E
