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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-4011:
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> Check for broken documentation links in hudson
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-4011
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4011
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: general/javadocs
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Fix For: 4.0
>
> Attachments: LUCENE-4011-core-links.patch,
> LUCENE-4011-lucene-links.patch
>
>
> Mike added a cool script to dev-tools (checkJavadocLinks.py) that checks
> all local links in our documentation.
> I think we really need to check this in hudson and fail on any errors, for
> these reasons:
> * javadocs external linking is really broken, so 'ant javadocs' doesnt find
> all errors.
> for example you can do this:
> {noformat}
> {@link java.lang.JavaDocsSucks}
> {noformat}
> and nothing will ever give you any warning: just a broken link. thats
> because javadocs
> external linking is fundamentally package-driven, broken by design for
> compile-time
> verification of correctness.
> * some documentation files have internal href links which should be checked
> to be correct.
> * this checker finds broken html links like unescaped slashes that we
> currently don't catch.
> * this checker finds real API bugs that javadocs won't warn about, such as
> protected methods
> returning package-private classes and so on.
> Once we fix the broken links we should be able to enforce all of this stuff
> in hudson, helping
> to prevent our documentation from growing wildly out of date.
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