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David Holmes - Sun Microsystems David.Holmes at Sun.COM
Sat Jan 12 00:06:57 UTC 2008


Andrew,

Andrew Haley said the following on 11/01/08 09:48 PM:
> David Holmes - Sun Microsystems writes:
>  > I understand, but even clarifications are not necessarily
>  > straight-forward. The point is that someone, or a group of
>  > someones, will have to evaluate all javadoc changes to establish
>  > whether the change is truly a "clarification".
> 
> Sure, but that's surely no different from any other change to the
> source code.  Write a patch, submit, get it approved.

But the difference is who has to do the approving. For code changes, 
it's peer review, for spec (aka doc) changes its a different set of "peers".

Cheers,
David Holmes



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