Re: Stale branches in Savannah repository

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 01/09/2022 à 20:54, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond 
development a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> it's been 2 years now that development has moved to GitLab. In the very
> beginning, we agreed to keep existing branches on Savannah, but I'd
> like to revisit that decision and propose that we make it a mirror of
> only the master and stable/* branches, just as GitHub is. The migrated
> branches continue to be available on GitLab.
>
> However, I'd like to also propose to delete some of these branches
> (both on Savannah *and* GitLab) that don't serve a purpose anymore:
>   - dev/knupero/lilypy3devel: We've long switched to Python 3.
>   - dev/janneke/wip-guile2: We've also switched to Guile 2.2, and all
> commits in the branch have been implemented in one way or another.
>   - dev/janek/experimental-fix-for-issue-2462: Issue #2462 has been 8
> years ago, with an evolved version of the branch's commit AFAICT.
>   - dev/janek/cg-cleanup: This is material from 2013 and the CG sections
> about git have been rewritten in the process of moving to GitLab and
> more recently by Jean.
>   - dev/frax/colorful-make: This is also from 2013, for context see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2013-08/msg00138.html
> I didn't read through all of it, but it seems there have been concerns
> over how maintainable it is (which I share), and Dan has done great
> work some time ago to reduce the output during the build. Anyway, this
> touches files in stepmake/, which we recently got rid of, and therefore
> doesn't apply anymore.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> There are other branches (both from Savannah, as well as on GitLab)
> without an associated (open) merge request. If some of yours can be
> deleted, please do so; if there are some by others that aren't useful
> anymore, maybe share them here so others can comment.



I believe these not to be useful anymore as well:

dev/dak/badregex

  (fix was later done differently by Jonas)

dev/hanwen/cairo-marku

  (doesn't contain anything not in master)

dev/hanwen/safe-eval

  (it was about fixing -dsafe, now removed)

dev/wl/extender-line
dev/wl/non-srcdir-autogen
dev/wl/programming-work
dev/wl/tweak-tag

  (merge requests were abandoned, and AFAIR the diff remains available
  on each MR even with the branch deleted)

stable/*

  Should these be converted to tags now?


That said, I'm not overly bothered by the presence of these stable
branches either, especially those under dev/, which is a sort of
"private area".

Jean