Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5303
Sounds good. Just to be sure: My write-up above was meant as a suggestion
or food-for-thought, not as a final decision ;-)
We should probably bring these thoughts to a dev discussion and get more
opinions on that matter, because I think this is going to be a pretty
fundamental thing in the future.---
