Mirror jdk 8u to Skara

[Joe Darcy]

On 2/11/2021 9:33 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> I'm looking at https://github.com/openjdk and I can't see any
> old OpenJDK trees. (By "old" I mean from before we went over to
> a unified repo.)


That omission is by design, from JEP 357: "Migrate from Mercurial to Git":

> Goals:
>
> * Migrate all single-repository OpenJDK Projects from Mercurial to Git
>
[...]

> Non-Goals
>
>   *   We will not migrate multi-repository OpenJDK Projects, such as 
> the JDK 8 Updates Project. Those Projects can migrate to Git if and 
> when they consolidate into a single repository.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357

-Joe