MediaWiki's PHPCS plugin requires documentation comments on all
methods, unless those methods are fully typed (all parameters and
return value).
It turns out that almost all of our methods are fully typed already.
Procedure:
1. Find: \*(\s*\*\s*(@param \??[\w\\]+(\|null)? &?\$\w+|@return \??[\w\\]+(\|null)?)\n)+\s*\*/
Replace with: */
This deletes type annotations, except those not representable
as PHP type hints such as union types `a|b` or typed arrays `a[]`,
or those with documentation beyond type hints, or those on
functions with any other annotations.
2. Find: /\*\*/\n\s*
Replace with nothing
This deletes the remaining comments on methods that had no prose
documentation.
3. Undo all changes that PHPCS complains about (those comments
were not redundant)
4. Review the diff carefully, these regexps are imprecise :)
Change-Id: Ic82e8b23f2996f44951208dbd9cfb4c8e0738dac
MediaWiki's PHPCS plugin requires documentation comments on all
properties, unless those properties are typed.
This has potential to introduce bugs – in particular, because typed
properties without a default value will throw an exception if their
value is accessed before it's defined, while previously they defaulted
to null. I fixed this when I found it (making them nullable and null
by default), but I may have missed some cases.
Change-Id: If5b1f4d542ce3e1b69327ee4283f7c3e133a62a0
Our IDs and names are correctly written with underscores, but allow
spaces too for consistency with the behavior of internal wiki links
when linking to a subpage of Special:FindComment.
Change-Id: Ib9f67ac02d963395db9d56951946b9747a410a88
Some mass messages appear on hundreds or thousands of pages and it's
not good to try to list them all.
Change-Id: Ib903d67ba4fd9d85790ef4271933991b9b6f3834
Inspired by this Wikitech-l discussion:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NWXPNHRNLEVXHSWX33H473OAWQP6CDOA/
To keep this simple for now, I am only removing redundant PHPDoc
comments on constructors, and only when all the documentation for
parameters completely duplicates type hints.
More could be done, but that can happen later when we have better
tooling. Redundant comments on constructors that take a dozen services
are by far the most annoying for me and I want them gone now.
Change-Id: I86cbf7d6e48035cfa06f780c8fb1b02e68709a0c
