[7u10] Request for approval: 7166055: Javadoc for WeakHashMap contains misleading advice (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Sun Sep 16 15:29:04 PDT 2012

On 16/09/2012 1:26 AM, Phil Race wrote:

On 9/15/12 3:46 AM, David Holmes wrote:

Phil,

On 15/09/2012 2:57 AM, Phil Race wrote: I really don't think its appropriate to push javadoc changes into an update release without a really, really compelling reason that I don't see here. That is certainly true if they represent a specification change, but there is no semantic change here this is a simple clarification. That would just rule it out completely. But we don't even regenerate javadoc for the update releases and we have never randomly backported doc comments, for no obvious reason. So my reasoning and position stands.

This is OpenJDK, it doesn't matter if "we" don't regenerate javadoc for update releases. And I have long thought that "we" should! I understand the issue with spec changes in update releases but I never understood a policy that would allow errors, misconceptions and mis-guidance to be set in stone instead of correcting them for the benefit of the user community.

David

-phil.

David ------ A reminder: Update releases aren't a free-for-all. You need to exercise judgement in what has to go in and what is the case for it. We are up to 7u10 now. We need to be dialling back the rate of change and focusing on JDK 8.

-phil.

On 9/14/2012 12:56 AM, Shi Jun Zhang wrote: Hi all, I'd like to request for approval to push the following change into 7u10. Changeset in jdk8 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/237e27c7ddc3 Webrev http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhangshj/jdk7u/7166055/webrev.00/ Reviewed by dholmes, mduigou Review thread http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-May/010322.html

More information about the jdk7u-dev mailing list