gianm commented on pull request #11917: URL: https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/11917#issuecomment-967763306
First I want to say that I am not intending to block this patch. If people think it's a good idea then please go for it. It's harmless for all the reasons that @cheddar mentioned. I was just trying to articulate an opinion about extension interface changes _generally_: 1) Maintaining stable extension interfaces is generally more trouble than it's worth 2) It probably doesn't help very many people to defer breaking changes by 1 release, because my guess is most people don't upgrade through every single version. If people skip the next version they'll be back to getting a sudden surprise. If one wanted to solve this problem, a good solution is to batch up interface changes and make them once every year or two. But I'm not really advocating that; see (1). It's a good point that UDFs and UDAFs are the extension points that have the strongest benefits from being stable. I agree. I'm not 100% sure if I agree that the benefit is enough to justify the maintenance overhead in general, but, it could be. And if anything does meet that bar it'd be UDFs and UDAFs. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
