We have a very nice contrib sitting up in HBASE-15320 which via a proxy -- so minimal dependencies -- adds source and sink for Kafka Connect. It is nicely contained inside two new hbase-kafka-* modules.
We good w/ taking on this new feature? It looks good to me. Check it out up on HBASE-15320. I was going to commit to tip of branch-2 so it'd show up in hbase-2.2.x unless you all want some backporting action going on. S
