On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > > > > Perhaps opening a jira for a cleaner framework for HttpServer extension > could be useful? > > Sure. That's probably what should have happened to begin with > rather than the quickly changing the API to a different classification. I > was a bit surprised that the JIRA went through so quickly without much > comment, but I assumed that's because it was HBase requesting or because so > many people were on their way to Berlin. > Or because this is the sort of thing that could take weeks of discussion or just 5 minutes to unblock HBase from moving on to trunk. I'd rather have the weeks of discussion *after* the 5 minute patch, so people can continue to make progress. We've moved too slowly for too long. > > That said, big picture issue: I still think there should be some > official guidance on when LimitedPrivate is the right thing to do. I'd hate > to see random groups requesting an API change "just this once" with no real > leg to stand on whether it was appropriate or not. -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
