Ashley Jeffs

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Hey everyone [it's been a while](https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos/issues/781) since we last updated the minimum Go version for Benthos and I'm considering updating to 1.18. The obvious immediate benefit would be to use...

PSA
plugin api
feedback wanted

The integration tests (https://github.com/Jeffail/benthos/tree/master/lib/test/integration) for Kafka are awful, mostly because Kafka is an utter pain to run. They need to be updated and fixed up, ideally so that they also...

help wanted
inputs
outputs

We should do a bit of explorative work and see how easily a WASM processor using https://github.com/suborbital/reactr would be.

enhancement
processors
effort: lower

The [`dynamic` output](https://www.benthos.dev/docs/components/outputs/dynamic) is currently the best performance option for dynamically altering the outputs of a stream. However, since this output is strictly fan-out, when the goal is to multiplex...

enhancement
outputs

For some use cases it might be necessary to only consume from an input on a strict schedule, effectively making them batched inputs. This could mean periodically consuming from a...

enhancement
inputs

We need to sprinkle some `split` magic in more places. The key candidates here are the `unarchive` processor and anywhere that talks about batching.

enhancement
documentation

The dust is starting to settle now since the opensearch fork so it's probably worth spending some time understanding what's needed in order to continue to support both offerings. We're...

enhancement
processors
outputs

Up until fairly recently metadata values were stored exclusively as strings, work has been done to accommodate arbitrary and structured metadata values internally and these non-string values are already accessible...

enhancement
PSA
feedback wanted

So we recently made a large effort to pull out most component implementations into optional imports, that was a right bother but we ain't not never benefited none because you...

enhancement
cool idea
quality of life

##### Problem Description Hey, we recently upgraded sarama from v1.30.1 to v1.37 in https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos. However, in v1.34.0 you introduced a breaking API change to `(*OffsetCommitRequest) AddBlock` (https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/commit/59a3d390ffc78a91fefdab99a094802a16e3750f#diff-df5fe5e6335379dccdd93c2bf7f3e52783a9b16cad64e53383066f5d8d2b070cR223). This might not...