Hey David, I have a pretty largish patch with a reimplementation of the producer. At the moment this is a stand alone code base. I wanted to get a patch up that integrates this with the kafka code base as a new sub-project module for the new producer and (eventually) the consumer as well.
I wanted to work out some of the sequencing with the gradle patch you have going (KAFKA-1171). I think if we try to both at the same time it will be a bit of a drag as one of us will have to keep rebasing and I suspect there will be a few iterations on the code layout that will definitely impact the build as this code goes through review. But I don't have a good idea how close the gradle stuff is to committable and don't want to block indefinitely. Any thoughts on that...? -Jay
