I don't get the difference between Private and LimitedPrivate, but otherwise seems like quite a nice idea.
It will be also good if we can agree upon what these tags actually mean and add this meaning to the documentation. 2015-01-27 15:46 GMT+01:00 Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>: > Hi, > > Hadoop has annotations for tagging the stability and audience of classes > and methods. > > Through that, you can have @InterfaceAudience.Public, Private, > LimitedPrivate > and also @InterfaceStability.Evolving, Unstable, and Stable. > > I guess there are tools which allow to automatically check if interfaces, > which are marked as Stable have been changed between releases (or by pull > requests). > > I think such annotations are crucial if we want to guarantee interface > stability between releases. > > What do you think? Should we add those annotations? Which one would you > like to add? > > > Robert >
