Well, it's not like abandoned branches cost anything significant, but
as someone else suggested if there's no activity after N months and
there are no open PRs on the branch, then delete them. No biggie.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> This is all nice and dandy with you explaining how things are done in
> companies, but this is NOT one of them, this is an open source
> project.
>
> Somewhere in the future, when you are gone from the project, NOBODY
> will know what these branches are for (unless they do some archaeology
> exploration, that again, is time consuming, on a project with already
> scarce resources). There is no "management" who will instruct new
> members "clean up Elliotte branches, please", there is nobody who
> "tracks the work progress" or "manages" this project. We are all pawns
> on the table.
>
> Thanks
> T
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > And I guess fixing the mailing list will also take care of all your
> > branches in canonical repo, if a bus hits you tomorrow...
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is just utterly silly: I am NOT interested at all in your branches:
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't expect you to be. Ignore them. The problem is not that the
> > > branches exist. It is that the mailing list is bothering you with
> > > them. Fix the mailing list.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Elliotte Rusty Harold
> > > elh...@ibiblio.org
> > >
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