RFR: JDK-8027566 Remove the old build system

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2013-11-11 12:53, Alan Bateman wrote:
> I just checked and it looks like that are only 3 or 4 changes in 
> jdk8/build that are not in jdk8/tl. Are these going into jdk8/jdk8 
> this week?

I assume that.
> As regards timing then jdk8/tl currently has ~50 changes backed up for 
> jdk8-b117. Lana usually takes the snapshot for integration on 
> Wednesday @ 10am PT. It might be best to wait for this week's snapshot 
> to be taken before pushing the big changes to jdk8/tl. If Wednesday > 
> 10am PT delays you then we could ask Lana about taking the snapshot 
> early or else just skipping the integration for b117.

There is no real hurry for this. I think it would be ideal to go into tl 
just after the snapshot; then we'll have longest possible time to test 
before integration to master.

We're awaiting SQE test results which are due Wednesday morning PT. 
Unless there are any surprises in testing, it seems a good time to push 
to TL would be on Wednesday, after the test results and the new 
integration snapshot is taken.

Also, it would be good to have okay from some reviewers by then as well. :-)

Do I need a sponsor to push to tl? Is it okay if I do the push myself 
into tl, or should I send the patch to any of you?

/Magnus