On Fri, 6 May 2022 22:06:17 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a simple small change to `TagletManager`, to not report 
> warnings about bad use of tags (such as `@author` and `@version`) when 
> command-line options have not been given to enable the use of the tags in the 
> output (i.e. the `-author` and the dreadfully-named `-version` option.)
> 
> The change is more pragmatic than anything else.  There are lots of "bad" 
> uses of `@author` in JDK API documentation, on methods. The alternative would 
> be to permit the tag anywhere, but that would be both a spec change and work 
> to implement the change that we're not really interest in, since the tag is 
> now somewhat deprecated.
> 
> Two existing tests are updated, to test the handling of "bad" tags, with and 
> without the enabling option.
> 
> Another test has some very (very) old unused lines deleted. If today was 
> Thursday, I'd call it Throwback Thursday. These lines predate the 
> `JavadocTester` conversion.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 141ef68f
Author:    Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/141ef68f8250ac0b97d481c2f727628c03ea4943
Stats:     99 lines in 4 files changed: 86 ins; 10 del; 3 mod

8286338: suppress warnings about bad @author tags when author info is not 
generated.

Reviewed-by: prappo

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8583

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