[8u communication] - Removal of jdk8u/hs-dev forest

[Volker Simonis]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 28/01/16 16:10, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> On 01/28/2016 03:21 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
>>>
>>> To help keep the mercurial server clean of old unnecessary development
>>> forests, I'd like to propose that the jdk8u/hs-dev forest be deleted.
>>
>> All of us have, from time to time, done software archaeology in order
>> to discover when a change was made.  By definition you cannot know
>> when this might be needed.  In my opinion it would make sense to
>> archive this somewhere.
>
> Question around this Andrew. All of the edits and commits that were made in
> hs-dev are sync'ed to the master jdk8u forest. That's the standard team to
> master sync process that the JDK Updates Projects use.
>
> Nothing should be lost. Is the master forest sufficient for your archaeology
> needs or am I missing something ?
>

Andrew may refer to broken links from JBS which point to the
jdk8u/hs-dev repository. I think this is mostly a "convenience
problem" and unfortunately we already have this problem with numerous
other deleted forests (e.g. hsx). The solution is relatively simple
(just replace jdk8u/hs-dev by jdk8u/dev in the link because the change
id remains stable) but people not so familiar with Mercurial/OpenJDK
probably don't know this and get a "bad impression" because links from
JBS point to nowhere.

Maybe we can establish some http-redirection at hg.openjdk.java.net to
automatically redirect request from deleted repositories to existing
ones?

Regards,
Volker

> regards,
> Sean.
>>
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>