Official iceberg kafka-connect is missing SMTs from original Databricks/Tabular repository

[fuzing]

Apache Iceberg version

1.7.1 (latest release)

Query engine

None

Please describe the bug 🐞

The contribution of the kafka-connect connector from Databricks/Tabular does not contain any of the transforms/SMTs that were available with the original kafka connector, as seen here: transforms

Given that there are so many folks who are reliant on these transforms (in our case we use JsonToMap to mitigate endless schema evolutions as a result of the default 'struct' behavior), is there a plan to incorporate them as part of this repository?

Thank you!

Willingness to contribute

• I can contribute a fix for this bug independently
• I would be willing to contribute a fix for this bug with guidance from the Iceberg community
• I cannot contribute a fix for this bug at this time

[ismailsimsek]

duplicate of #10844