Clarify experimental flag should not gate incomplete implementations#3505
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The experimental flag controls whether development-stage conventions are included. It should not be repurposed to gate access to in-progress implementations of stable convention versions. This change leaves implementation-readiness gating up to individual instrumentations, preventing users from inadvertently opting into development-stage conventions when they only want stable ones.
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What is meant with in-progress implementation?
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The experimental flag controls whether development-stage conventions are included. It should not be repurposed to gate access to in-progress implementations of stable convention versions.
This change leaves implementation-readiness gating up to individual instrumentations, preventing users from inadvertently opting into development-stage conventions when they only want stable ones.
I'm having second thoughts about this from the initial PR. Let me know what you think.
UPDATE: we could add a new attribute
preview: trueto handle the implementation-readiness aspect??cc @lmolkova @jack-berg @zeitlinger @mx-psi