JEP 212: "Resolve Lint and Doclint Warnings" is complete!

[Stuart Marks]

Yay, wow, hooray!

It's been a "Long and Winding Road" or "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been" but 
either way, congratulations!

s'marks

On 7/13/15 6:52 PM, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of the proposed improvements for development practices made early in JDK 9
> was the elimination of javac lint and doclint warnings for sources in the JDK.
> [1] This was first proposed [2] and later formally targeted to JDK 9 as  JEP
> 212: Resolve Lint and Doclint Warnings [3].
>
> Amongst other modules in the build, java.base and java.desktop compiled cleanly
> under -Xlint:all as of January 2015. [4] Four out of five doclint categories
> were enabled in March 2015 [5] and, as of this morning, the fifth doclint
> category now also covers those modules too [6].
>
> With that, JEP 212 is complete!
>
> Thanks to all those who contributed fixes and reviews to this effort (and its
> less structured antecedents) over the years,
>
> -Joe
>
> [1] "Proposed source code and regression test suite improvement projects for JDK
> 9,"
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2013-December/000141.html
>
> [2] "Draft JEP for discussion: Lint and doclint clean sources,"
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2014-May/000781.html
>
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/212
>
> [4] "And then there were none: -Xlint:all enabled int the build of JDK 9 jdk repo",
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2015-January/001857.html
>
> [5] "javac doclint checking now enabled in the JDK 9 build,"
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2015-March/001985.html
>
> [6] "FYI, coming soon: doclint checking of references,"
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2015-July/002416.html