Hi Everyone, I would like to start a vote on KIP-1273: Improve Connect configurable components discoverability
Summary: The idea is to introduce a common ConnectPlugin interface for Kafka Connect components that expose configuration metadata. By unifying the existing config() method across connectors, converters, transformations, and predicates under a single contract, it simplifies component discovery, reduces code duplication and enables uniform tooling for configuration introspection, validation, documentation, and UI generation. The change is fully backward compatible and requires no modifications to existing component implementations. KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1273%3A+Improve+Connect+configurable+components+discoverability Discussion Thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/0060qohs20jqc5bzzqdtm9vb92kn3xty Thanks, Mario.
