PSA: We will remove webrtc/base in a couple of weeks.

[ehmal...@webrtc.org]

What?

We will remove webrtc/base shortly (in about 2 weeks).

All the contents of webrtc/base were moved to webrtc/rtc_base, and all that remains in webrtc/base are dummy headers and .gn files that redirect to webrtc/rtc_base.

Why?

We want to move all the contents in the webrtc directory to top-level, because:

• When we migrate from Rietveld to PolyGerrit we won't be able to apply WebRTC patches on Chromium trybots (which is a very useful feature, especially as we plan to have such trybots in our default trybot set).
  This is because PolyGerrit needs the repo in Chromium to be the same as the WebRTC repo, otherwise it won’t be able to apply the patch.

• To fully automate rolling into Chromium DEPS, we wish to use the LKGR finder, but doing so is blocked on this (needs the same revision hashes to avoid ugly hacks). crbug.com/666726

Tracking Bugs

Chromium tracking bug: crbug.com/611808

WebRTC tracking bugs:

• webrtc/base: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=7634

• webrtc/tools: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=7855