franz-josef-kaiser/WordPress-GitHub-Plugin-Updater — comment on commit c0699239965d2c5e850b89d9f8ad5ded7a755bdd
File: updater.php line 173
By GaryJones:

API documentation generation would likely only focus on the code in this project, and by default, wouldn't have access to the definition of WordPress functions. The purpose of the `@uses` tag is to create automatic links within the documentation, and that won't happen by default for outside functions.