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Jakob Homan commented on HADOOP-6677:
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This would be a pretty big change to the classification scheme that was argued 
out quite exhaustively in HADOOP-5073; there should be time for people to 
re-hash if they wish before anything is committed.  Nicholas had made the point 
there that having an enum avoids problems with typos and such, but this is a 
minor benefit.  If we're removing the limitation of who should use 
LimitedPrivate, and who can depend on it, then it's not really limited private 
anymore?

> InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate should take a string not an enum
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>                 Key: HADOOP-6677
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6677
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.21.0
>            Reporter: Alan Gates
>            Assignee: Tom White
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HADOOP-6677.patch
>
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> Trying to keep the list of all possible components sharing limited private 
> interfaces up to date is painful.  As other subprojects beyond HDFS and MR 
> use this interface it will only get worse (see PIG-1311).  If it is converted 
> to a string other subprojects can use it without requiring patches to common.

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