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Re: Deleting unused branches on github

 

Hi!

ALL BRANCH OWNERS: PLEASE REVIEW AND CLEANUP YOUR STALE BRANCHES AT
https://github.com/MariaDB/server/branches/yours

IT SHOULDN'T TAKE MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES!

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:59:44PM +0100, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
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> Right, that was the intention of my mail, Cc:'ing the top committer in each
> branch (sorry I seem to have forgotten to Cc: you).
> 
> Or do you have a better way to determine who is the branch owner of a
> particular branch?
Top committer is fine.

> 
> Of course, if a branch should somehow end up being wrongly removed, I will
> just re-push it from a backup I will take before deleting. But better to
> avoid errorneous removal in the first place.
I'm more worried that this email will be largerly ignored. I suggest we wait
1-2 weeks and then start catching people on IRC with the same request.
If there's no action, we may consider we did our best and aren't obligated to
keep these branches anymore.

> 
> > At least the following branches may have valuable revisions:
> >> origin/10.1-spider 1 year, 1 month ago Michael Widenius
> >> <monty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> origin/10.0-power 1 year, 7 months ago Sergey Vojtovich
> >> <svoj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ok, thanks, I've removed them from the lists.
> 
> Updated list with branches to be removed below.
> 
>  - Kristian.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> These branches have not been updated for a long time, and looked like they
> were not used any more. They are annotated with the date and the committer
> of the last commit:
> 
> origin/bb-10.2-decimal                    5 months              ago  Monty <monty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.1-jan2                       8 months              ago  Jan Lindström <jan.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.1-xtrabackup                 8 months              ago  Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.2-window_simple                 9 months              ago  Sergei Petrunia <psergey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.2-vicentiu-create            10 months             ago  Vicențiu Ciorbaru <vicentiu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.2-travis-ci                     12 months             ago  Otto Kekäläinen <otto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.1-jan-encryption             1 year, 1 month       ago  Jan Lindström <jan.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.1-default                    1 year, 3 months      ago  Monty <monty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.0-FusionIO-Galera               1 year, 4 months      ago  Jan Lindström <jan.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.0-custombld                     1 year, 4 months      ago  Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.1-window                        1 year, 4 months      ago  Vicentiu Ciorbaru <vicentiu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.0-FusionIO                      1 year, 5 months      ago  Jan Lindström <jan.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.1-binlog_row_image           1 year, 5 months      ago  Vicențiu Ciorbaru <vicentiu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/sanja-old-10.0-batch               1 year, 10 months     ago  Oleksandr Byelkin <sanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.1-eperi                      1 year, 11 months     ago  Michael Widenius <monty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> These branches all contain an MDEV in their name that has been closed:
> 
> origin/10.1-MDEV-6877-binlog_row_image  MDEV-6877       Closed
> origin/10.2-MDEV-8348                   MDEV-8348       Closed
> origin/10.2-MDEV-9114                   MDEV-9114       Closed
> origin/bb-10.0.22-mdev8989              MDEV-8989       Closed
> origin/bb-10.0-galera-mdev8496-hf       MDEV-8496       Closed
> origin/bb-10.0-mdev-10341               MDEV-10341      Closed
> origin/bb-10.1-mdev6657-r2              MDEV-6657       Closed
> origin/bb-10.1-mdev8646                 MDEV-8646       Closed
> origin/bb-10.1-mdev8989                 MDEV-8989       Closed
> origin/bb-10.1-mdev9362                 MDEV-9362       Closed
> origin/bb-10.1-mdev-9468                MDEV-9468       Closed
> origin/bb-10.2-mdev8646                 MDEV-8646       Closed
> origin/bb-10.2-mdev8789                 MDEV-8789       Closed
> origin/bb-10.2-mdev9864                 MDEV-9864       Closed
> origin/bb-5.5-mdev6735                  MDEV-6735       Closed
> origin/bb-5.5-mdev-9304                 MDEV-9304       Closed
> origin/bb-vicentiu-mdev7978             MDEV-7978       Closed
> origin/hf-10.1-mdev9021                 MDEV-9021       Closed
> origin/hf-10.1-mdev9853                 MDEV-9853       Closed
> origin/MDEV-8909                        MDEV-8909       Closed
> 
> 
> These branches are fully merged into an existing main tree (5.5, 10.0, 10.1,
> 10.2, 5.5-galera, or 10.0-galera), and have not been updated for a while:
> 
> origin/MDEV-8947              5 months          ago  Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.2-test1234          6 months          ago  Galina Shalygina <galashalygina@xxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.2-connector-c-integ 7 months          ago  Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-10.2-mdev9543       7 months          ago  Sergei Petrunia <psergey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/10.0-defragment        1 year, 6 months  ago  Vicentiu Ciorbaru <vicentiu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> origin/bb-5.5-knielsen        1 year, 8 months  ago  Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Sergey


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