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

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 09:04 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> 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?

+1

Cheers,
Severin