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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-6668: -------------------------------------- > BTW the metrics themselves are also interfaces and they would have their own > classification (but we can't use the annotations). Sorry I was little hasty here in my explanation. The metrics APIs are separate form the actual metrics. You can consider marking specific classes that implement metrics public or private - but if you mark them as public then you are asserting that the actual implementation classes for the specific metrics are public - ie the impl class API is public. If your intension is to make specific sets of metrics (say for NN) public then you have to document that in your documentation - the annotation mechanism cannot help here unless we extend it. > Apply audience and stability annotations to classes in common > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6668 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6668 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: documentation > Reporter: Tom White > Assignee: Tom White > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > Attachments: common.interface-tw-annotated.txt, HADOOP-6668.patch, > HADOOP-6668.patch, HADOOP-6668.patch, HADOOP-6668.patch, HADOOP-6668.patch, > HADOOP-6668.patch > > > Mark private implementation classes with the InterfaceAudience.Private or > InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate annotation to exclude them from user Javadoc > and JDiff. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.