[urgent][jdk10] RFR: JDK-8198658 Docs still point to JDK 9 docs

[Martin Buchholz]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> On 2018-02-26 12:57, joe darcy wrote:
>
>> Hi Magnus,
>>
>> Looks okay for now, but longer term should the version be queried from
>> the environment some way?
>>
>> The problem as I understand it is that the URL is dead until the docs
> team creates it, which doesn't necessarily happen in sync with us bumping
> the version number in the jdk/jdk repository. Perhaps that's ok early in
> the release?


If you take "always releasable" seriously, then there's no such thing as
"ok early in the release".  Why can't we always have up to date docs, and
the directory the docs live in is derived from the jdk sources (or
generated api docs) themselves? Seems like a small amount of release
engineering.