roadmap status of dormant dependencies (--experimental_dormant_deps)?

[jvandew]

Is there any information about the long term plans for dormant dependencies (--experimental_dormant_deps) or somewhere I can go digging to find that out? Mostly just curious if it is expected to stabilize in a future release or if there is a real chance it ends up removed entirely, and struggling to find public information on it.

Context is we have some folks looking to build on top of it at our company, and it does seem tailor-made to the problem they're trying to solve. I think we're fine supporting them if the main risk is API/behavior instability, but having the feature disappear entirely is the bigger concern.

Previous design discussion from 2 years ago on the topic: #22241

Thanks!

[fmeum]

@lberki

[lberki]

/cc @ahumesky

It'll stay (it's in widespread use at Google, so we couldn't remove if even if we tried to). We should really remove the experimental_ prefix some day.

[jvandew]

awesome to hear, thank you for the quick answer!