[QUESTION] Plans for migrating from kafka python to confluent-kafka-python

[jainal09]

I noticed that kafka-python is no longer being supported and won't be updated for future versions of kafka, as stated in the open issue #908 and confirmed by dpkp/kafka-python#2290. Although kafka is backward compatible, it's important for our active kafka-client project to support the latest features and functionalities.
Therefore, I'm exploring alternative solutions to this problem. One possible solution is to replace the deprecated kafka-python function calls with the confluent-kafka-python. After overviewing the aio-kafka source code, it seems feasible to replace the calls to kafka-python with confluent-kafka to match the required functionalities.
I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter.

[ods]

We're considering another option, to incorporate needed parts of kafka-python into aiokafka source. The confluent-kafka-python is based on librdkafka, which is very different approach.

[wbarnha]

I'm attempting a revival of the kafka-python project at the moment, I just need to revise the CI/CD workflows. Further discussion can take place in #908.