This is only a temporary extension to Kafka Connect runtime until there is an Embedded API as per KIP-26

A Generic Kafka Connector which takes a list of channels from an IRC server and creates 1 or more tasks depending on maxTasks configuration argument.

Kafka Connect Domain object representing a generic IRC Message with its SCHEMA descriptor.

This is an equivalent of hello-samza project which transforms wikipedia irc channel events into wikipedia-raw and does some basic mapping and stateful