KIP-908 — Add description field to connector configuration
Discarded Connect
Adds an optional free-form `description` field to Kafka Connect connector configurations surfaced via the REST API. Connector names are the only current identifier, which is insufficient for large Connect clusters where multiple teams share connectors and need context like owner, purpose, or contact information.
Details
| Author | Mickael Maison |
| Status | Discarded |
| JIRA | KAFKA-14741 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2023-02-22 |
| Last Modified | 2023-03-24 |
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