[FLINK-25345] FLIP-196: Source API stability guarantees

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.20.0
• Component/s: API / DataStream, Documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Till Rohrmann
• Created: 16/Dec/21 11:27
• Updated: 11/Mar/24 12:44

Description

This ticket is an umbrella ticket for the work on FLIP-196 which will properly document and guard the agreed upon source API stability guarantees.

Issue Links

• links to: FLIP-196

Sub-Tasks

• Document what is Public API and what compatibility guarantees Flink is providing: Open
• Add test that ensures that parameter/return types have the same or stronger stability guarantee than method: Open
• Verify stability guarantees of annotated classes: Open