Guidelines for backporting

[Chris Hegarty]

On 18 Feb 2014, at 14:16, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
> ….
> This partly resolves to whether the "spec" is the same as Javadoc. I
> understand that the spec is not altered once the release is cut, but
> does that mean that no changes whatsoever can go into the Javadoc? It
> would seem wrong and inefficient to force developers to read mistakes
> in Javadoc forevermore because of process reasons…

There is already precedent set for fixing typos and grammatical errors in public, part of spec, classes, but who would build and host the updated javadoc is a separate question, I guess.

-Chris.