GitHub user rhauch opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4296
KAFKA-6313: Add SLF4J as direct dependency to Kafka core Recent changes are now directly using the SLF4J API, so we should have a direct dependency. ### Committer Checklist (excluded from commit message) - [ ] Verify design and implementation - [ ] Verify test coverage and CI build status - [ ] Verify documentation (including upgrade notes) You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rhauch/kafka kafka-6313 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4296.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4296 ---- commit eb38ce67d82a47f932ab8cf6b39b05e5887f5300 Author: Randall Hauch <rha...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-12-06T15:07:45Z KAFKA-6313: Add SLF4J as direct dependency to Kafka core ---- ---