On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:57:03 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Please review a "somewhat automated" change to insert `@spec` tags into doc >> comments, as appropriate, to leverage the recent new javadoc feature to >> generate a new page listing the references to all external specifications >> listed in the `@spec` tags. >> >> "Somewhat automated" means that I wrote and used a temporary utility to scan >> doc comments looking for HTML links to selected sites, such as `ietf.org`, >> `unicode.org`, `w3.org`. These links may be in the main description of a doc >> comment, or in `@see` tags. For each link, the URL is examined, and >> "normalized", and inserted into the doc comment with a new `@spec` tag, >> giving the link and tile for the spec. >> >> "Normalized" means... >> * Use `https:` where possible (includes pretty much all cases) >> * Use a single consistent host name for all URLs coming from the same spec >> site (i.e. don't use different aliases for the same site) >> * Point to the root page of a multi-page spec >> * Use a consistent form of the spec, preferring HTML over plain text where >> both are available (this mostly applies to IETF specs) >> >> In addition, a "standard" title is determined for all specs, determined >> either from the content of the (main) spec page or from site index pages. >> >> The net effect is (or should be) that **all** the changes are to just >> **add** new `@spec` tags, based on the links found in each doc comment. >> There should be no other changes to the doc comments, or to the >> implementation of any classes and interfaces. >> >> That being said, the utility I wrote does have additional abilities, to >> update the links that it finds (e.g. changing to use `https:` etc,) but >> those features are _not_ being used here, but could be used in followup PRs >> if component teams so desired. I did notice while working on this overall >> feature that many of our links do point to "outdated" pages, some with >> eye-catching notices declaring that the spec has been superseded. >> Determining how, when and where to update such links is beyond the scope of >> this PR. >> >> Going forward, it is to be hoped that component teams will maintain the >> underlying links, and the URLs in `@spec` tags, such that if references to >> external specifications are updated, this will include updating the `@spec` >> tags. >> >> To see the effect of all these new `@spec` tags, see >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8296546/api.00/ >> >> In particular, see the new [External >> Specifications](http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8296546/api.00/external-specs.html) >> page, which you can also find via the new link near the top of the >> [Index](http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8296546/api.00/index-files/index-1.html) >> pages. > > Jonathan Gibbons has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Remove updates from unexported files The java.base/net/, java.http/, java.naming/ changes look reasonable to me - though like Alan I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have an inline `{@spec }` tag - similar to `{@systemProperty }`, rather than repeating all the references outside of the context where they were cited. This probably also calls for a review of these references by maintainers of the various areas - as some of them might need some updating - e.g. linking to `rfceditor` as was previously suggested, and double checking whether all of them still make sense. Not something to be conducted within this PR though. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11073
