Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/750#issuecomment-181072411 We have managed to far to not make a distinction between batch and streaming jobs, which was very good. Given that the future plan is that streaming jobs subsume everything, introducing such a change now starts this off in a wrong direction, in my opinion. Defining a flag for what it actually should mean (i.e. is the job stoppable) ties the change to the feature, rather than introducing a distinction we work hard not to make.
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