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# System prepended metadata

title: Feature gate critera

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# Feature gate criteria

## Experimental

- Disabled by default. It can be enabled by using a flag like `--experimental` 
- Might be buggy. Enabling the feature may expose bugs.
- Support for feature may be dropped at any time.
- The feature or API may introduce breaking change or change in incompatible ways in a later software release. 
- Recommended for use only in short-lived testing clusters or only non-business-critical uses, due to increased risk of bugs and lack of long-term support.

## Stable

- Have a supermajority of approval from the maintainers
- Enabled by default.
- The feature is well tested. Enabling the feature is considered safe.
- Support for the overall feature will not be dropped, though details may change.
- The schema and/or semantics of objects will introduce incremental changes without breaking changes in a subsequent releases. 
- Recommended for production use. 