On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 16:02:40 GMT, Pavel Rappo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Please review this long-awaited change to documentation inheritance.
>>
>> This change improves "methods comment algorithm" and introduces directed
>> documentation inheritance. While "methods comment algorithm" -- automatic
>> search for inheritable documentation -- has been improved, it still cannot
>> read an author's mind so as to always find the documentation they intended.
>> From now on, an author can state their intention, by providing an FQN of the
>> superclass or superinterface from which to inherit documentation:
>>
>> {@inheritDoc S}
>>
>> Which is exactly what I did to counterbalance some of the JDK API
>> Documentation changes caused by the change to "methods comment algorithm".
>
> Pavel Rappo has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> feedback: make warning less scary
Great work in a difficult area overflowing with Technical Debt.
I've made various (optional) suggestions, I'll approve for now, but will look
again if you want to make ore changes.
-------------
Marked as reviewed by jjg (Reviewer).
PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14357#pullrequestreview-1468628610
