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
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
