Thanks Jing. About your question regarding FLIPs: The FLIP is necessary when these classes touch user-facing API (which should be the case if we're preparing it for 2.0). I created a dedicated discussion thread [1] to discuss this topic because it's more general and independent of FLIP-335.
Best, Matthias [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/1007v4f4ms7ftp1qtkjsq25s5lwmk9wo On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 12:21 PM Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > Thanks for raising this up! I saw your conversation with Chesnay in the PR > and after reading the historical discussions, there should be no doubt to > deprecate Time classes. +1 > > I just have a related question: Do we need to create a FLIP each time when > we want to deprecate any classes? (BTW, FLIP-335 contains useful > information. It makes sense to write it) > > Best regards, > Jing > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 12:09 PM Matthias Pohl > <matthias.p...@aiven.io.invalid> wrote: > > > The 2.0 feature list includes the removal of Flink's Time classes in > favor > > of the JDKs java.time.Duration class. There was already a discussion > about > > it in [1] and FLINK-14068 [2] was created as a consequence of this > > discussion. > > > > I started working on marking the APIs as deprecated in FLINK-32570 [3] > > where Chesnay raised a fair point that there isn't a FLIP, yet, to > > formalize this public API change. Therefore, I went ahead and created > > FLIP-335 [4] to have this change properly documented. > > > > I'm not 100% sure whether there are better ways of checking whether we're > > covering everything Public API-related. There are even classes which I > > think might be user-facing but are not labeled accordingly (e.g. > > flink-cep). But I don't have the proper knowledge in these parts of the > > code. Therefore, I would propose marking these methods as deprecated, > > anyway, to be on the safe side. > > > > I'm open to any suggestions on improving the Test Plan of this change. > > > > I'm looking forward to feedback on this FLIP. > > > > Best, > > Matthias > > > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/76yywnwf3lk8qn4dby0vz7yoqx7f7pkj > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-14068 > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32570 > > [4] > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-335%3A+Removing+Flink%27s+Time+classes > > >
