By passivity do you mean backward compatibility ?
Not all API's have same level of maturity, and the audience for them
can also be different.
Public api's are supposed to be marked with the annotations under
org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.classification.InterfaceAudience as
Public, and the expectat
While reviewing some of the recent patches, I came across a few with
non-passive changes and or discussion around them. I was wondering what
kind of passivity guarantees should we provide to our consumers? I
understand that Hive API is probably not as widely used as some of its
peers in the ecosyst
