Christopher L. Shannon

I should also add the caveat that while I said in my last comment I think it makes no sense to stick with the `TaskRunner` interface that there is still...

My initial comments of not to include it were because I thought you meant with Tech Preview as it's just for testing, etc and not really intended for users yet....

I would not use @deprecated as that means something completely different. We should probably just create our own annotation and call it `@Experimental `or `@Beta` etc

I started to work on a follow on to this PR in another branch that is based on the SteadyTime changes from #4494 and is here: https://github.com/cshannon/accumulo/commit/19977034c3f0fceb1a3cf0972195ad4fb459a484 It's not tested...

> I started to work on a follow on to this PR in another branch that is based on the SteadyTime changes from #4494 and is here: [cshannon@1997703](https://github.com/cshannon/accumulo/commit/19977034c3f0fceb1a3cf0972195ad4fb459a484) > >...

The latest update [demonstrates](https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/e0fe9e49b9bc00f101afa6a7fa302f792d53b55b/test/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/test/ample/TestAmpleIT.java#L203) using the new test API that the fate unspittable marker is written for an unsplittlable tablet. It essentially replicates parts of the test in [LargeSplitRowIT](https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/eea8ce48e2d5d7bd5c6b69e05c6824f697d8de0a/test/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/test/LargeSplitRowIT.java#L262) that...

The latest [commit](https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/4415/commits/6180ec183e54c543b00e101a5f496a10bf7b6640) includes a test for #3908, this could be broken out but thought it was a nice demonstration of the API to add it as part of this...

I am marking this as ready for review as I think it's pretty close to being ready to merge after all the recent changes. Because it's a test API I...

I'm starting work on this now, this seems like it might be something we could do in main.

Closing out as no activity in over 3 years, it can be reopened if this is still a problem.