HBASE-15875 wants to remove HTable and HTableInterface, classes that have been deprecated since before hbase-1.0.0 release. Unfortunately, we missed deprecating the method doBulkLoad(Path hfofDir, final HTable table) in LoadIncrementalHFiles, a public, stable class.
My thinking is that its removal is 'ok' -- with proper notice -- since this a method used by offline tooling. My thinking is that as long as proper notice, folks can prepare their tooling ahead of time changing them to use the alternative that takes a Table instance in time for the upgrade. This method is also 'damaged' given it has a param that was properly deprecated -- i.e. the HTable instance -- but nonetheless, its removal will be a breaking change in 2.0. You lot all good w/ this? Thanks, St.
