Reminder: OpenJDK 8u40 nroff files are once again up for review

Seán Coffey sean.coffey at oracle.com
Thu Jan 29 09:59:11 UTC 2015


Raymond - consider this approved for jdk8u-dev (8u60) - Please add a 
suitable noreg label to the JDK-8067380 bug report. Once pushed, you can 
submit a critical (phase2) request for 8u40 inclusion.

regards,
Sean.

On 28/01/2015 22:27, raymond gallardo wrote:
> Hello reviewers,
>
> This is a reminder that the due date for comments for the OpenJDK 
> nroff files for JDK 8u40 are due tomorrow, *Thursday, January 29th*.
>
> Thanks,
> --Raymond
>
> On 2015-01-27 10:24 AM, raymond gallardo wrote:
>> Hello Reviewers,
>>
>> As part of the OpenJDK review processes, and the next Java SE 8u40 
>> release, the OpenJDK nroff files for Java tools are up for review. 
>> Please respond by *Thursday, January 29*.
>>
>> The webrev is available here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rgallard/openjdk_webrev_8u40_2/webrev/
>>
>> Please provide your feedback by Thursday, January 29.
>>
>> The following sections describe what kinds of review comments we're 
>> looking for and what has changed for Java SE 8u40. Please contact us 
>> if you have any questions.
>>
>> Summary of Changes
>> Scope of Review
>> Provide Feedback
>>
>> *Summary of Changes*
>>
>> Technical content changes related to JDK 8 features have been made. 
>> These changes have already been reviewed by the engineer responsible 
>> for each feature.
>>
>> HTML documentation for Java tools has also been generated, which has 
>> the same content as the nroff files up for review, and which will be 
>> available on download.java.net.
>>
>> The following lists significant changes made to the Java tool nroff 
>> pages for this release as well as the engineer who reviewed the content.
>>
>> java
>>
>> JDK-8059929: Document changes to tiered compilation and code cache 
>> size options (Vladimir Kozlov)
>>
>> JDK-8068751: Document the option -XX:+CheckEndorsedAndExtDirs flag in 
>> java launcher man page (Mandy Chung)
>>
>> jjs
>>
>> JDK-8062100: removed unsupported options so that doc would match 
>> output of jjs -h (Hannes Wallnoefer 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=hannesw>)
>>
>> jcmd
>>
>> Reformatted text
>>
>> *Scope of Review*
>>
>> Please provide a sanity check of content as opposed to reviewing the 
>> nroff markup itself.
>>
>> A line-by-line comparison between the html and nroff versions is not 
>> needed.
>>
>> *Provide Feedback*
>>
>> Please indicate your approval and provide feedback by e-mail by 
>> *Thursday, January 29*
>>
>> All feedback will be triaged. Severe technical inaccuracies and other 
>> small bugs will be fixed. Due to Java SE 8u40 release plan deadlines, 
>> bugs will be filed for large scale changes and will most likely be 
>> handled in a future update release.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> The Java SE Documentation Team
>>
>>
>



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