Closed Civil closed 6 years ago
@dgryski do you have any opinion about that? Maybe you remember the original reasoning behind having that in a first place?
The original reasoning was probably due the protobuf to match the pickle, which had that field. If you remove it remember you're going to need an upgrade path: first set consumers to always calculate it, then afterwards set the servers to stop sending it.
I think it's not worth to remove it. With new protocol messages it should be possible to convert them directly into pickle and almost directly to json
It seems that it's very easy to reconstruct stopTime out of data we receive. Is there any real need in having that in protocol?