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Duo Zhang commented on HBASE-17802:
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Belated +1. So we can also commit the patch in HBASE-17584 to branch-1. Let me
reopen it and prepare patch for branch-1.
Thanks.
> Add note that minor versions can add methods to Interfaces
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> Key: HBASE-17802
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17802
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: stack
> Assignee: stack
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-17802.master.001.patch
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> Clarify that adding methods to Interfaces in minor releases is allowed and
> that we'll always try to do it in a backward compatible way.
> Here is discussion from the list:
> http://search-hadoop.com/m/HBase/YGbbQfpjp1kozD7?subj=About+adding+methods+to+an+interface+which+is+part+of+our+public+API+in+minor+release
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