Labels

• a:bug

  PMD crashes or fails to analyse a file.
• a:false-negative

  PMD doesn't flag a problematic piece of code
• a:false-positive

  PMD flags a piece of code that is not problematic
• a:new-language

  Proposal to add a new PMD or CPD language to the main distribution
• a:new-rule

  Proposal to add a new built-in rule
• a:question

  Request for information that doesn't necessarily entail changes to the code base
• a:RFC

  A drafted proposal on changes to PMD, up for feedback form the team and community
• a:suggestion

  An idea, with little analysis on feasibility, to be considered
• an:enhancement

  An improvement on existing features / rules
• dependencies

  Pull requests that update a dependency file
• for:performance

  The goal of this change is to improve PMD's performance
• github_actions

  Pull requests that update Github_actions code
• good first issue

  A great starting point for new contributors
• help-wanted
• in:api

  Addition or modification of an API of PMD
• in:ast

  About the AST structure or API, the parsing step
• in:autofixes

  Affects the autofixes framework
• in:cli

  Affects the PMD Command Line Interface
• in:cpd

  Affects the copy-paste detector
• in:data-flow

  Affects the data flow analysis code
• in:documentation

  Affects the documentation [doc]
• in:grammar

  About the grammar of a lexer or parser, eg, a parse/lex exception
• in:metrics

  Affects the metrics framework
• in:pmd-internals

  Affects PMD's internals
• in:ruleset-xml

  About the ruleset schema/parser
• in:symbol-table

  Affects the symbol table code
• in:testing

  About tests of pmd, eg the module pmd-lang-test or pmd-test [test]
• in:type-resolution

  Affects the type resolution code
• in:xpath

  Relating to xpath support at large, eg Jaxen / Saxon, custom functions, attribute resolution
• is:deprecation

  The main focus is deprecating public APIs or rules, eg to make them internal, or removing them