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Reynold Xin commented on HIVE-9362:
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It's great to see this ticket! It is an important step towards Hive being a
platform and would be tremendously useful to Spark.
> Document API Gurantees
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> Key: HIVE-9362
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9362
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Brock Noland
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.15.0
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> This is an uber JIRA to document our API compatibility guarantees. Similar to
> Hadoop I believe we should have
> [InterfaceAudience|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java]
> and
> [InterfaceStability|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java]
> which I believe originally came from Sun.
> This project would be an effort by the Hive community including other
> projects which depend on HIve API's to document which API's they use.
> Although all API's that they use may not be considered {{Stable}} or even
> {{Evolving}} we'll at least have any idea of who were are breaking when a
> change is made.
> Beyond the Java API there is the Thrift API. Many projects directly use the
> Thrift binding since we don't provide an API in say Python. As such I'd
> suggest we consider the Thrift API to be {{Public}} and {{Stable}}.
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