Good annotations. I can see a few future usages :)

Jiangjie (Becket) Qin

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote:

> Hi Team Kafka,
>
> Ewen just added stability annotations to Apache Kafka (KAFKA-2429).
>
> In the same PR, we marked the new Consumer API as "unstable" since we are
> still actively iterating on them. The goal is to mark them as "evolving"
> before the next release and after one release to validate them, we will
> mark them as "stable".
>
> When adding new public APIs, we encourage you to think of their stage of
> development and annotate correctly.
>
> The usage is:
>
> - unstable - can change at any time
> - evolving - can break compatibility at minor releases (i.e. 0.9 may be
> incompatible with 0.8)
> - stable - will only break compatibility at major releases (1.0, 2.0, etc)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Gwen
>

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