[LUCENE-3977] generated/duplicated javadocs are wasteful and bloat the release

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: general/javadocs
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 12/Apr/12 16:09
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:14
• Resolved: 21/Apr/12 07:52

Description

Some stats for the generated javadocs of 3.6:

• 9,146 files
• 161,872 KB uncompressed
• 25MB compressed (this is responsible for nearly half of our binary release)

The fact we intentionally double our javadocs size with the 'javadocs-all' thing
is truly wasteful and compression doesn't help at all. Just testing, i nuked 'all'
and found:

• 4,944 files
• 81,084 KB uncompressed
• 12.8MB compressed

We need to clean this up for 4.0. We only need to ship javadocs 'one way'.