Re: Stale branches in Savannah repository

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 14/09/2022 à 00:38, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :
> Le 03/09/2022 à 17:35, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 10:41 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > > stable/*
> > >
> > >     Should these be converted to tags now?
> > I think most open-source projects keep their release / stable branches
> > around, even for "outdated" versions. Additionally we'd have to create
> > tags *now* for changes that happened years ago. I wouldn't particularly
> > like doing that...
> >
> > > 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".
> > Maybe; on the other hand, some of the branches I mentioned in my
> > original email give the impression that the transitions to Python 3 and
> > Guile 2 are still being worked on. Moreover, I firmly believe that we
> > should try to not "forget" mergeable work in branches, and we waste
> > time in every pass over branches that were deemed not important anymore
> > now / in the past.
>
>
>
> Good point. There seems to have been no objection to removing
> these branches, so I went ahead and removed these:
>
>   dev/frax/colorful-make
>   dev/hanwen/safe-eval
>   dev/janek/cg-cleanup
>   dev/janek/experimental-fix-for-issue-2462
>   dev/janneke/wip-guile2
>   dev/knupero/lilypy3devel
>   dev/wl/non-srcdir-autogen
>   dev/wl/programming-work
>   dev/wl/tweak-tag


Sorry, forgot this one:

dev/hanwen/cairo-marku

(which didn't contain anything not in master, so I didn't make a backup).