I just checked and that patch is in .8 branch. Thanks for working on back
porting it Andrew. We'd be happy to commit that work to master.
As for the kafka contrib project vs Camus, they are similar but not quite
identical. Camus is intended to be a high throughput ETL for bulk
ingestion of Kaf
We can easily make a Camus configuration that would mimic the functionality
of the hadoop consumer in contrib. It may require the addition of a
BinaryWritable decoder, and a couple minor code changes. As for the
producer, we don't have anything in Camus that does what it does. But
maybe we shoul
