+1 Agree. We have more than 200 branches. ~Rajani
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Boris Schrijver <bo...@pcextreme.nl> wrote: > +1 > > > Best regards, > > Boris Schrijver > > TEL: +31633784542 > MAIL: bo...@pcextreme.nl > > > > > On August 2, 2015 at 5:17 PM Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 08/02/2015 03:46 PM, Daan Hoogland wrote: > > > As we are changing our review process I want to clean up the > > > repository at apache getting rid of stale branches. Of course the > > > release branches of old releases should stay, but a lot of old > > > branches have been merged at unknown places in the master or old > > > release branches. I want to propose to delete them as much as > > > possible. > > > > > > - I want to delete any branch that has no commits newer then one > year > > > old > > > - I want to ask the last commiter on any branch with commits newer > > > then one year to review if 'their' branch can be removed > > > - All branches that are merged back are to remain untouched. > > > > > > ideally only the branches 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and master > will > > > remain as branches HEAD. This is unfortunately not true for some > older > > > releases that were never merged back into their respective release > > > branches. Any work in progress will of course not be touched. > > > > > > comments? > > > > > > > Nope, a good idea. We should remove old branches. I'd say that > > everything over 6 months is also old. > > > > Wido > > >
