Aha!
I found a reference to using japicmp for this purpose even earlier, at our
first stable release :-)
https://lists.apache.org/thread/8chz1pp3drg8kbv84yfq9mct31ohcvvd
I just noticed on dev@flink that there's a proposal to use it there (
https://lists.apache.org/thread/jkk87ls2lc17q6bqz5b1xzh67
I think this is still worth considering. We would need to see how well it
does at avoiding false alarms. It was brought up by Andrew a while back at
https://lists.apache.org/thread/kq2w6rw0oorcj037ygjvfsqw1l9l55jj and I know
we had another discussion of it even further back. I thought also that the
