[Discuss] Oak Javadocs on www.javadoc.io

[Michael Dürig]

Hi,
http://www.javadoc.io/ provides simple and fast Javadoc hosting for 
anything on Maven Central: requesting the Javadocs for an artifact 
through a respectively constructed URL is all that's needed.

For example http://www.javadoc.io/doc/org.apache.jackrabbit/oak-jcr/ 
would always point to the latest release of oak-jcr, while older release 
(e.g. 0.11) would be available at 
http://www.javadoc.io/doc/org.apache.jackrabbit/oak-jcr/0.11.

When an URL is requested for the first time it takes roughly 10 minutes 
for the Javadoc to be pulled to the site.

What do people think about leveraging this mechanism for 
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/? Currently we only host Javadocs 
for the latest release. Should we start linking to 
http://www.javadoc.io/ for older releases? Should we stop hosting 
Javadocs ourselves entirely in favour of http://www.javadoc.io/? Or 
should we not change anything at all?

Michael