Github user xccui commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4530
Thanks for the comment, @aljoscha. IMO, making the `timeServiceManager`
protected indeed will minimise the impact on `AbstractStreamOperator`, while
that may introduce duplicated codes in the subclasses. We make some trade-offs
here.
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