Github user rmetzger commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1028#issuecomment-131843222
How about dropping the backported Kafka code and relying completely on our
own implementation against the SimpleConsumer API?
We would need to implement the `KafkaConsumer.partitionsFor()` method
ourselves, but I think that's doable.
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