Missing @since tags

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Feb 7 17:49:17 UTC 2013


On 07/02/2013 17:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Chris Hegarty<chris.hegarty at oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>> I have finally located the script, findMissingSince ;-) I will run it once
>> I have a clean, up to date, jdk8 build. I think it may be a candidate to
>> propose to add to the common scripts in the top-level repo.
>
> Because the script won't work out-of-the-box, I suggest an alternative
> order.
>
> *First* open-source it, then get someone who understands Martin-perl to do
> the inevitable fixups required for the script to understand javadoc 8
> output (I am unusually qualified), and then fix the missing @since in a
> single Shazam! change.  Don't fix the ones identified by Paul right away -
> leave those as a test case for the script.
Alternatively, maybe this is a job for an annotation processor.

-Alan.



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