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

[Chris Hegarty]

On 04/02/16 10:23, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> 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

This would be convenient, but I'm not sure how necessary. All
JIRA issues updated by hgupdater should contain a comment with
a URL to the changeset in the master forest. Yes, there are previous
comments with URLs to changesets in development forests which may
no longer exist, but you should always be able to find the master.
Unless I'm missing something related to the 8u development flow?

-Chris.