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Ryan Ernst commented on LUCENE-6257:
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Thanks for the investigation Steve! My main question is, what does the javadoc 
jar buy users? In what case would they need the javadoc jar and not the sources 
jar? My understanding the main reason for these jars is e.g. IDE integration 
for tooltips, etc, and like I noted before, it seemed to me only the source jar 
was necessary for both showing code as well as the javadocs.

> Remove javadocs from releases (except for publishing)
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-6257
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6257
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ryan Ernst
>
> In LUCENE-6247, one idea discussed to decrease the size of release artifacts 
> was to remove javadocs from the binary release.  Anyone needing javadocs 
> offline can download the source distribution and generate the javadocs.
> I also think we should investigate removing javadocs jars from maven.  I did 
> a quick test, and getting the source in intellij seemed sufficient to show 
> javadocs.   However, this test was far from scientific, so if someone knows 
> for sure whether a separate javadocs jar is truly necessary, please say so.
> Regardless of the outcome of the two ideas above, we would continue building, 
> validating and making the javadocs available online.



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