Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1026#issuecomment-157824468 Yes, a TaskInfo is a good idea. It can be handed also to the `RuntimeEnvironment` (from there to the `RuntimeContext`), and is created once in the Task constructor from the TDD (that we we spare the JobManager from changes).
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