[7u10] Request for approval: 7166055: Javadoc for WeakHashMap contains misleading advice

[Phil Race]

On 9/15/12 3:46 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Phil,
>
> On 15/09/2012 2:57 AM, Phil Race wrote:
>> I really don't think its appropriate to push javadoc changes into an
>> update release without
>> a really, really compelling reason that I don't see here.
>
> That is certainly true if they represent a specification change, but 
> there is no semantic change here this is a simple clarification.

That would just rule it out completely. But we don't even regenerate 
javadoc for
the update releases and we have never randomly backported doc comments, for
no obvious reason. So my reasoning and position stands.

-phil.

>
> David
> ------
>
>> A reminder: Update releases aren't a free-for-all. You need to exercise
>> judgement in what
>> has to go in and what is the case for it. We are up to 7u10 now. We need
>> to be dialling
>> back the rate of change and focusing on JDK 8.
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>>
>> On 9/14/2012 12:56 AM, Shi Jun Zhang wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to request for approval to push the following change into 
>>> 7u10.
>>>
>>> Changeset in jdk8
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/237e27c7ddc3
>>>
>>> Webrev
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zhangshj/jdk7u/7166055/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Reviewed by dholmes, mduigou
>>>
>>> Review thread
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-May/010322.html 
>>>
>>>
>>