I like the idea. But would love to have different name for the
"LimitedPrivate" to make it easier to distinguish.
How about "Module" or "Package" ?
- Henry
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote:
> I think in Hadoop they use LimitedPrivate for the different components of
> the project.
> For example LimitedPrivate("yarn").
> Here is a very good documentation on the topic:
> https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/InterfaceClassification.html
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Alexander Alexandrov <
> alexander.s.alexand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>>
