kafka contrib/hadoop-consumer,producer

Hi,
I would like to know the status regarding
contrib/hadoop-consumer,hadoop-producer code. Is this considered
to be deprecated or there is still interest in these projects. Is
casmus the current actively developed project for writing data
from kafka to hdfs. If there is any interest in the above projects
from the community I am hoping to work on documentation and the
code as there isn't much activity happened on these projects.
Thanks,
Harsha