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On 10/09/2014 02:39 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2014-10-09 11:31:37 -0600 (-0600), Chris Friesen wrote:
>> Just curious...why do we remove the stable branches for old
>> releases? Is the idea to force people onto new branches?
>
> It's twofold. First, it's to indicate that the branch will be
> getting no new patches ever. Second, it's because that's the only
> good way to get Gerrit to refuse backports developers may try to
> propose to the branch in error.

Okay, makes sense.

>> It seems like this just makes more work for people that are
>> maintaining older releases since it means they need to make sure
>> to mirror things before they go EOL.
>
> No need to mirror them. The final commit to the stable/havana branch
> is tagged havana-eol prior to deletion, as my announcement a couple
> weeks ago mentioned. This preserves the commit history indefinitely,
> so you can always create a local branch from that if you so desire.

Ah, okay.  Apparently I skimmed too quickly and missed the part about it 
being tagged still.

Thanks for the explanation.

Chris