[syslog-ng] Finding feature owner for Kafka source project

[Vithulan MV]

Hi all,

As you may have all known already, We are going to develop a new feature,
Kafka source for syslog-ng product during this GSoC 2016 under the guidance
of Viktor Juhasz.

A simple abstract idea of this project is,
The syslog-ng application can read messages from the sources. It processes
them with filters, rewrite rules, parsers and finally sends messages to
their destinations. The syslog-ng application already has a Kafka
destination that is implemented in Java. The Kafka source will allow
syslog-ng to read messages from Kafka, for an example this can be used for
example as a queue between several syslog-ng instances.

Kafka source project will allow you to,
-Use Kafka consumer which uses the high level Kafka group consuming API.
-Continue reading from the last message from which syslog-ng
reloaded/restarted.
-Avoid message loosing or message duplication as much as possible whenever
there is multiple syslog-ng reading the same kafka input.

If you are interested to become a feature owner for Kafka source project
and give us guidance on user's perspective, it will be very easy for us to
build a effective  component. Appreciate if you can contact us by sending
mail to us or to this thread.

Thanks,
Best regards,
Vithulan.

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Vithulan MV.

Undergraduate,
Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Moratuwa,
Sri lanka.
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