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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented on MNG-8485:
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IMHO when the API isn't frozen you're at alpha stage, not even beta, much less
release candidate or release. Once we release a finished version, API stability
is critical. Violate that and we'll lose a big chunk of the developer base.
(This is also a good reason to keep APIs small and non-public to the extent
possible, so there's less to commit to.)
> Finish experiments and commit
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> Key: MNG-8485
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8485
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Task
> Affects Versions: 4.0.0-rc-2
> Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Priority: Blocker
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> Roughly 200 classes and interfaces in Maven core are annotated
> `@Experimental` . There might be a reason to ship a few things in 4.0 that
> might still change but 200 is far too many. Commit to these APIs (i.e. remove
> the annotation) or fix and/or remove those types.
> Ar least some of them such as org.apache.maven.api.services.BaseRequest are
> already package protected, in which case we don't need the annotation at all.
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