I'd like to open the vote for KIP-45. We've discussed several alternatives on the mailing list and in the KIP call, but this vote is only on the documented KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61337336. This change will not be compatible with 0.9, but it will provide a cleaner API long term for users to work with. This is really the last chance to make an incompatible change like this with 0.10 shortly on the way, but compatible options (such as method overloading) could be brought up again in the future if we find it's needed.
Thanks, Jason