diff --git a/build/README.TXT b/build/README.TXT
deleted file mode 100644
index 128571058d..0000000000
--- a/build/README.TXT
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-How to setup build.xml on your local machine?
-
-1.) Install ant
- e.g. apt-get install ant
-
-2.) Install jslint
- Get the latest distribution from http://code.google.com/p/jslint4java/ and 
- place jslint4java-*.jar in your home under .ant/lib/
-
-3.) Install PHP qa tools
- Run as root:
-  pear config-set auto_discover 1
-  pear install pear.phpqatools.org/phpqatools pear.netpirates.net/phpDox
-
- Alternative:
-  pear install pear.phpunit.de/phploc
-  pear install pear.phpunit.de/phpcpd
-  pear install pear.phpmd.org/PHP_PMD
-  pear install pear.pdepend.org/PHP_Depend
-  pear install pear.php.org/PHP_CodeSniffer
-  pear install PHP_CodeSniffer
-  pear install pear.phpqatools.org/PHP_CodeBrowser
-
-
-How to call this ant script?
- ant -f  build/build.xml -Dbasedir=. 
-
-
diff --git a/build/build.xml b/build/build.xml
index 265beb4bcc..c8c5c4efff 100644
--- a/build/build.xml
+++ b/build/build.xml
@@ -1,31 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project name="ownCloud" default="build" xmlns:jsl="antlib:com.googlecode.jslint4java">
+<project name="ownCloud" default="build">
 
  <!-- the target 'build' can be used by developers for command line builds -->
- <target name="build" depends="prepare,lint,jslint,phploc,pdepend,phpmd,phpcs,phpcpd,phpdoc,phpunit"/>
-
- <!-- the target 'build-ci' is used within our Jenkins CI-server http://ci.tmit.eu -->
- <target name="build-ci" depends="prepare,lint,jslint-ci,phploc,pdepend,phpmd-ci,phpcs-ci,phpcpd-ci,phpdoc,phpunit,phpcb-ci"/>
-
- <!-- the target 'build-pullrequests' is used within our Jenkins CI-server for pull request analysis -->
- <target name="build-pullrequests" depends="prepare,lint,jslint-ci"/>
-
- <target name="clean" description="Cleanup build artifacts">
-  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/api"/>
-  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/code-browser"/>
-  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/coverage"/>
-  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/logs"/>
-  <delete dir="${basedir}/build/pdepend"/>
- </target>
-
- <target name="prepare" depends="clean"
-         description="Prepare for build">
-  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/api"/>
-  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/code-browser"/>
-  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/coverage"/>
-  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/logs"/>
-  <mkdir dir="${basedir}/build/pdepend"/>
- </target>
+ <target name="build" depends="lint"/>
 
  <!-- php syntax analysis -->
  <target name="lint">
@@ -61,135 +38,4 @@
   </fail>
 
  </target>
-
- <!-- javascript lint -->
- <target name="jslint-ci" description="Run the JSLint tool on JS files">
-  <jsl:jslint options="white,sloppy,vars,bitwise,eqeq,browser" haltOnFailure="false">
-   <jsl:predef>
-jQuery,$$,OC,$,oc_webroot,oc_appswebroots,oc_current_user,t,Files,FileList,FileActions,localStorage,OCCategories,EventSource,OCdialog,SVGSupport,dragOptions,dragOptions,folderDropOptions,formatDate,humanFileSize,procesSelection,relative_modified_date,scanFiles,simpleFileSize,simpleSize
-</jsl:predef>
-   <!-- jsl:formatter type="plain" / -->
-   <jsl:formatter type="xml" destfile="build/logs/jslint.xml" />
-   <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="**/*.js" excludes="**/*.min.js,**/3rdparty/**" />
-  </jsl:jslint>
- </target>
-
- <target name="jslint" description="Run the JSLint tool on JS files">
-  <jsl:jslint options="white,sloppy,vars,bitwise,eqeq,browser" haltOnFailure="false">
-   <jsl:predef>
-jQuery,$$,OC,$,oc_webroot,oc_appswebroots,oc_current_user,t,Files,FileList,FileActions,localStorage,OCCategories,EventSource,OCdialog,SVGSupport,dragOptions,dragOptions,folderDropOptions,formatDate,humanFileSize,procesSelection,relative_modified_date,scanFiles,simpleFileSize,simpleSize
-</jsl:predef>
-   <jsl:formatter type="plain" />
-   <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="**/*.js" excludes="**/*.min.js,**/3rdparty/**" />
-  </jsl:jslint>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phploc" description="Measure project size using PHPLOC">
-  <exec executable="phploc">
-   <arg value="--log-csv" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/phploc.csv" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="pdepend"
-         description="Calculate software metrics using PHP_Depend">
-  <exec executable="pdepend">
-   <arg value="--jdepend-xml=${basedir}/build/logs/jdepend.xml" />
-   <arg value="--jdepend-chart=${basedir}/build/pdepend/dependencies.svg" />
-   <arg value="--overview-pyramid=${basedir}/build/pdepend/overview-pyramid.svg" />
-   <arg value="--ignore=${basedir}/3rdparty/"/>
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpmd-ci"
-         description="Perform project mess detection using PHPMD creating a log file for the continuous integration server">
-  <exec executable="phpmd">
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-   <arg value="xml" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/build/phpmd.xml" />
-   <arg value="--reportfile" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/pmd.xml" />
-   <arg value="--exclude" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/3rdparty/" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpmd"
-         description="Perform project mess detection using PHPMD creating a log file for the continuous integration server">
-  <exec executable="phpmd">
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-   <arg value="xml" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/build/phpmd.xml" />
-   <arg value="--exclude" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/3rdparty/" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpcs-ci"
-         description="Find coding standard violations using PHP_CodeSniffer creating a log file for the continuous integration server">
-  <exec executable="phpcs" >
-   <arg value="-p" />
-   <arg value="-v" />
-   <arg value="--tab-width=4" />
-   <arg value="--report=checkstyle" />
-   <arg value="--report-file=${basedir}/build/logs/checkstyle.xml" />
-   <arg value="--standard=${basedir}/build/phpcs.xml" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpcs"
-         description="Find coding standard violations using PHP_CodeSniffer creating a log file for the continuous integration server">
-  <exec executable="phpcs" >
-   <arg value="-p" />
-   <arg value="-v" />
-   <arg value="--tab-width=4" />
-   <arg value="--standard=${basedir}/build/phpcs.xml" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpcpd" description="Find duplicate code using PHPCPD">
-  <exec executable="phpcpd">
-   <arg value="--exclude" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/3rdparty/" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpcpd-ci" description="Find duplicate code using PHPCPD">
-  <exec executable="phpcpd">
-   <arg value="--log-pmd" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/build/logs/pmd-cpd.xml" />
-   <arg value="--exclude" />
-   <arg value="${basedir}/3rdparty/" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
-
- <!-- No idea if we need this within this build file. This is part of the release which is not contained within this script. -->
- <target name="phpdoc"
-         description="Generate API documentation using PHPDocumentor">
-  <!-- exec executable="phpdox"/ -->
- </target>
-
- <!-- currently we use autotest.sh for executing the unit tests against 3 different database setups -->
- <target name="phpunit" description="Run unit tests with PHPUnit">
-  <echo message="TODO: phpunit goes here"/>
-  <!-- exec executable="phpunit" failonerror="true"/ -->
- </target>
-
- <target name="phpcb-ci"
-         description="Aggregate tool output with PHP_CodeBrowser">
-  <exec executable="phpcb">
-   <arg value="--log" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}/build/logs" />
-   <arg value="--source" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}" />
-   <arg value="--output" />
-   <arg path="${basedir}/build/code-browser" />
-  </exec>
- </target>
 </project>
diff --git a/build/phpcs.xml b/build/phpcs.xml
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index d2909955ed..0000000000
--- a/build/phpcs.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<ruleset name="PHP_CodeSniffer">
- <description>The coding standard for PHP_CodeSniffer itself.</description>
- <exclude-pattern>*/Tests/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/lib/MDB2/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/3rdparty/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*.min.*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/l10n/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/files_texteditor/js/aceeditor/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/files_pdfviewer/js/pdfjs/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/files_odfviewer/src/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*/files_svgedit/svg-edit/*</exclude-pattern>
- <exclude-pattern>*jquery-ui-*.css</exclude-pattern>
- <extensions>php</extensions>
-
- <!-- Include the whole PEAR standard -->
- <rule ref="PEAR">
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.FileComment.InvalidAuthors" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.FileComment.TagIndent" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.FileComment.MissingVersion" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.FileComment.MissingTag" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.ClassComment.TagIndent" />
-  <!-- exclude name="PEAR.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent.Incorrect" /-->
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.ClassComment.WrongTagOrder" />
-  <exclude name="Generic.WhiteSpace.DisallowTabIndent.TabsUsed" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature.SpaceBeforeOpenBracket" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature.SpaceAfterOpenBracket" />
-  <exclude name="Generic.ControlStructures.InlineControlStructure.Discouraged" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.FunctionComment.ParameterCommentsNotAligned" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Commenting.FunctionComment.MissingParamTag" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.ControlStructures.ControlSignature" />
-
-  <!-- ident and alignment stuff  -->
-  <!-- exclude name="PEAR.ControlStructures.MultiLineCondition.Alignment" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.WhiteSpace.ScopeClosingBrace.BreakIdent" / -->
-
-  <!-- allow curly on classes and functions -->
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Functions.FunctionDeclaration.BraceOnSameLine" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.Classes.ClassDeclaration.OpenBraceNewLine" />
-
-  <exclude name="PEAR.NamingConventions.ValidFunctionName.PrivateNoUnderscore" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.NamingConventions.ValidVariableName.PrivateNoUnderscore" />
-  <exclude name="PEAR.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent"/>
- </rule>
-
- <rule ref="Zend.Files.ClosingTag" />
-
- <rule ref="Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent">
-   <properties>
-     <property name="indent" value="4"/>
-   </properties>
- </rule>
-
- <rule ref="Generic.Files.LineLength">
-  <properties>
-   <property name="lineLimit" value="120"/>
-   <property name="absoluteLineLimit" value="160"/>
-  </properties>
- </rule>
-
- <!-- Include most of the Squiz standard -->
- <!-- rule ref="Squiz">
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Classes.ClassFileName"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Classes.ValidClassName"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.ClassComment"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.FileComment"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Commenting.VariableComment"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Files.FileExtension"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.NamingConventions.ConstantCase"/>
-  <exclude name="Squiz.Operators.ComparisonOperatorUsage"/>
-</rule -->
-
- <!-- We allow variables to be used inside double quoted strings -->
- <!-- rule ref="Squiz.Strings.DoubleQuoteUsage.ContainsVar">
-  <severity>0</severity>
- </rule -->
-
-</ruleset>
diff --git a/build/phpmd.xml b/build/phpmd.xml
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index 3935a5b74b..0000000000
--- a/build/phpmd.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
- <ruleset name="My first PHPMD rule set" xmlns="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0 http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=" http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd">
- <description> My custom rule set that checks my code... </description>
- <!-- Import the entire unused code rule set -->
- <rule ref="rulesets/unusedcode.xml" />
-
- <!-- Import the entire cyclomatic complexity rule -->
- <rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/CyclomaticComplexity" /> 
-</ruleset>