I think we're ready for this! The public APIs are in very good shape, especially now that we have the new DoFn, user facing state and timers and splittable DoFn. Not all Runners support the more advanced features but we can work on this after a stable release and there are enough runners that support a large part of the features.
Best, Aljoscha On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 at 06:15 Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Chamikara Jayalath <chamik...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > I think, this point applies to Python SDK as well (though as you > mentioned, > > API hiding in Python is a mere convention (prefix with underscore) not > > enforced. We already have mechanism for marking APIs as deprecated which > > might be useful here: > > https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/ > > apache_beam/utils/annotations.py > > > > - Cham > > > > Perhaps an explicit @public annotation would fit. I could imagine easily > generating a spec to check against from such annotations, though tooling is > secondary to documentation. > > Kenn >
