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On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 17:52 +0100, Előd Illés wrote:
Hi Infra Team!

In October there was a discussion at Release Team meeting [1] about what 
can we do with the old, already EOL'd but not yet deleted branches (this 
is possible since with the Extended Maintenance process the 
general/"mass" EOL'ing was stopped and tagging a project branch EOL does 
not delete the branch anymore).


Not an answer but rather a question for my own understanding: what is the
advantage of deleting branches? I understand that these things would no longer
maintained and the gates will slowly break, but they're still relatively useful
as a reference to explore project history and it's not like branches are
expensive in git.

Stephen

Related to this, I would like to ask two things:

1. I've used the list_eol_stale_branches.sh [2] script to get the list 
of such not-yet-deleted branches for Ocata [3]. They are all tagged with 
'ocata-eol', but stable/ocata branch still exists for them. Could you 
please delete these? [3]

2. On the Release Team meeting [1] we were hinted that with the newer 
version of gerrit (that was installed at the end of November) some 
automation is possible through gerrit API in the future. Can I get some 
help about where should I start with the automation? Which repository 
should I look, where can the deletion being triggered ("similarly like 
branch creation")?

Thanks in advance,

Előd

[1] 
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/releaseteam/2020/releaseteam.2020-10-22-16.00.log.html#l-40
[2] 
https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/commit/eb381492da3f7c826c35b9f147fd9a1ed55ae797/tools/list_eol_stale_branches.sh
[3] http://paste.openstack.org/show/801992/