Initial prep for 1.16

Remove patcehs we know need to go
add comment on one im not sure should be dropped

go ahead and fix patched repos to turn off gpg signing, as this
helps rebase/apply --continue commands not suck.

Go ahead and prep the pom file change

scripts/applyPatches.sh

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ function applyPatch {
 
     statusfile=".git/patch-apply-failed"
     rm -f "$statusfile"
+    git config commit.gpgsign false
     $gitcmd am --abort >/dev/null 2>&1
 
     # Special case Windows handling because of ARG_MAX constraint