On Tue 18 Mar 2014 04:07:40 PM CET Omair Majid <omajid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> [2014-03-18 10:38]: >> Initial testing showed 80% build failure rate due to OpenJDK 8 >> update. > > This is caused by a change in the default doclint settings used by > OpenJDK 8. Think '-Wall -Werror' for those more familiar with gcc. > > We can patch OpenJDK 8 in Fedora to change the default to be more > lenient. This would be a deviation from upstream (and people might be > surprised when proprietary builds of Java exhibit different behaviour). > > If this is the main/driving motivation behind this Change (and not slow > ARM boxes) please consider that fixing OpenJDK 8 is an option. Lint is not the only reason really. Building javadocs is *really* painful on arm (where most java builds end up these days). It's more in the line of effort/gain calculation. There are very few javadoc users (most people will just look up documentation online). Quite important thing is our javadocs were never top-notch in the first place. There is missing interlinking, sometimes javadoc builds didn't finish (due to OOM) but builds succeeded and nobody actually noticed. We also ship API for end-user applications (freemind) which really *doesn't* make sense. This change really has two goals: * Give maintainers option to decide if javadocs make sense (from their POV) for their package * Communicate this change to users -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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