Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christos Trochalakis <ctrochala...@debian.org>
* Package name : golang-github-confluentinc-confluent-kafka-go Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Author : Magnus Edenhill, Confluent Inc. * URL : https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Apache Kafka Go client by Confluent Confluent's Kafka client for Go wraps the librdkafka C library, providing full Kafka protocol support with great performance and reliability. . The Go bindings are supported by Confluent, founded by the creators of Kafka, and part of their Confluent Platform offering, so the client can be expected to keep pace with Kafka development. . The Go bindings provide a high-level Producer and Consumer with support for the balanced consumer groups of Apache Kafka 0.9 and above. Although there is already one Kafka Go client in the archive[0] and an ITP for a second one[1] I believe it makes sense to also include confluent-kafka-go. It's a fairly new client written by Magnus Edenhill, the author of librdkafka which handles all the low level bits of the Kafka protocol. The fact that this is a wrapper for librdkafka, the de facto high performant Kafka bindings, and the official support by Confluent make confluent-kafka-go a great candidate for a Go Kafka client. I plan to co-maintain it under the pkg-kafka umbrella along with the Python client and librdkafka itself. [0] golang-github-shopify-sarama-dev [1] golang-github-optiopay-kafka (http://bugs.debian.org/857318)
