Re: [jakartaee-tck-dev] Relaxing signature testing

[Scott Marlow <smarlow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/18/21 10:43 AM, Kevin Sutter wrote:

>       
>       >  Another
>         alternative could be for us to maintain a static list of
>         annotations to
>         ignore.  The `annotation ignore list` would only be updated
>         during
>         the development of a Jakarta EE release (e.g. likely via a code
>         change).
>       
>       That's the
>         alternative
>         that has the slippery slope of when to say when....
>

Does it help enough if we also add the qualification that we would only exclude annotations that have CLASS/SOURCE retention policies?  Such that RUNTIME annotations are never excluded and only some CLASS/SOURCE annotations are excluded.