Hi, Congratulation for the release of kafka 3.6 that contains a feature I was waiting for many years!
Speaking of the devil, the tiered storage is currently in early access. When do you expect it to be production ready? I know it's not an easy question since the early access was just released, but it's just to get an order of magnitude (Is it a couple of months? A year? Multiple years?). Another question regarding this feature: the current version doesn't provide a RemoteStorageManager implementation. According to the KIP-405 "HDFS and S3 implementation are planned to be hosted in external repos and these will not be part of Apache Kafka repo". Do you plan to list somewhere the implementations vetted by the Kafka community so that users can select a safe implementation? Best regards, Christophe
