[7u-communication] Hg forest summer clearing

[Volker Simonis]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:27 AM, dalibor topic
<dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 24.06.2014 10:31, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dalibor,
>>
>> why do we need to remove these repositories?
>
>
> I was approached by ops to ask if we still had a need those forests and if
> they could be deleted if that was no longer the case.
>
>
>> I don't have any concrete use case for keeping the mentioned forests
>> but sometimes it may come in handy to browse the history of old
>> releases.
>
>
> That's still available through the corresponding releases' master forests.
> They contain the identical changes from the -dev forests.
>
>
>> If I remember right I used jdk7u-osx several times during
>> our PPC/AIX port. That's also the reason I'd like to keep our old
>> PPC/AIX integration forests although they are read-only. They contain
>> other change sets and comments compared to the changes which were
>> finally integrated into the main repositories.
>
>
> My proposal only concerns JDK 7u, fwiw, as after a few years we now have
> accumulated plenty of forests we no longer need to have around. I can
> imagine that other Projects would make different choices at different points
> in time.
>
>
>> So if there are no strong arguments for deleting them I'd prefer to keep
>> them:)
>
>
> Does 'them' refer to all *-dev forests listed below, the *-osx forest listed
> below, or both?
>

OK, taking into account that the release forests contain the identical
bits like the dev forests for already released versions I'd then vote
to only keep the *-osx forest.

Thanks,
Volker

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:21 PM, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I’d like to ask the ops to remove the following READ-ONLY “-dev” forests
>>> from hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/ for JDK 7u releases that
>>> have been completed:
>>>
>>>          jdk7u2-dev
>>>          jdk7u4-dev
>>>          jdk7u40-dev
>>>          jdk7u6-dev
>>>          jdk7u60-dev
>>>
>>> And the old OS X port integration forest:
>>>
>>>          jdk7u-osx
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have a reason for these forests to stay around
>>> until Friday, June 27th.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> dalibor topic
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