RFR: JDK-8027566 Remove the old build system

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/11/2013 13:39, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
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> 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.
Great, looks like the timing will work well.

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> 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?
You have Committer role on the jdk8 project so you should be able to 
push. I assume Erik will be the primary Reviewer but you are right to 
get as wide a review as possible.

-Alan