This is to track a discussion around promoting alternate API resource representations (#33900, kubernetes/community#123) to beta. More specifically, the PartialObjectMetadata type via Accept header media type parameters is important for:

• Garbage collector optimization (Use a PartialObjectMetadata based CodecFactory for GC client #49718, Support list/get/watch ObjectMeta in api server #30180)
• Efficient object count quota support (https://trello.com/c/ayBfZlz8, Kubernetes issue forthcoming)

It's not entirely clear to me if there's a single PR, issue, or commit to reference in service of the promotion, so I've collected a list of what I think are relevant historical links:

• API for server side tabular output #44685
• Proposal: Server-side kubectl get community#363
• f203e42
• Add a server side Get operation #40848

/kind feature
@kubernetes/sig-api-machinery-feature-requests