Hello,
Over the last few months, over on core-libs-dev there have been various
clean up efforts concerning the Java code in the JDK 8 "jdk" repo,
resolving both javac lint and doclint warnings.
With these clean ups in place, I think it is time for selected
categories of javac lint warnings to be enabled during the build under
-Werror. That is, for lint categories that have been scrubbed, the build
should be reconfigured so that reintroducing such a warning is a build
error. (Under the old build, different packages could use different
javac command line options. With the new build, all the Java code is
compiled under the same options so the full build was reduced to the
least restrictive javac lint setting.)
As additional warning categories are resolved, the set of enabled lint
categories could be expanded, potentially including doclint categories too.
Cheers,
-Joe
[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2013-August/009806.html
