Request Review JDK-8182029: Make the top-level docs index.html to a HTML-level redirect to the API overview page

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2017-06-13 09:26, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 13/06/2017 06:21, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8182029/webrev.00/
>>
>> JBS issue:
>>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8182029
>>
>> This patch replaces the top-level docs index.html to a HTML-level 
>> redirect to the API overview page.  We can come back to this page 
>> later in a future release to convey grouping information.
>>
> This looks okay to me and I think okay for Docs.gmk to have the 
> content of the top-level index.html (I initially thought it might make 
> more sense to have it in the repo but it's probably not worth it).

I agree. It's trivial enough (although barely) to be created by Docs.gmk 
like this.

For a long-term solution I'd like to see a more correct change (for 
instance, index.html will not be regenerated if JDK_INDEX_CONTENT 
changes), but for jdk9 this is okay.

/Magnus

>
> -Alan