RFR (ultra-trivial review): Typo in http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/util/logging/LogManager.html

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Mon Dec 10 23:21:19 UTC 2012


Jim,

Pushed [1].  I'm sorry that I missed to set the user when creating the 
changeset and it was too late when I noticed that and attempted to kill 
the hg push comment.   Hope you don't mind.

Mandy

[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/cac1bfaceaaa


On 12/10/2012 2:44 PM, Jim Gish wrote:
> Please review and push this ridiculously trivial fix: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jgish/Bug4819681-Day1-typo-in-LogManager/ 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejgish/Bug4819681-Day1-typo-in-LogManager/>
>
> I'd love to know how many people have stumbled on this ridiculous 
> one-letter capitalization bug which has been around since day-1 of the 
> introduction of logging and kept pushing it under the rug for others 
> to stumble on instead of just fixing the thing and getting it out of 
> the way.  Why do we continue to carry this kind of nonsense around?  I 
> can just imagine the number of reports that have been generated over 
> the years for every single release since 1.4, where someone has just 
> said "Ah that one.  It's trivial.  Just forget it."  Jeez! (rant over 
> :-) )
>
> Thanks,
>    Jim
>



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