[release][stable] stale old branches probably should be EOL'd

Herve Beraud hberaud at redhat.com
Tue Jun 29 14:03:58 UTC 2021


Hello,

I was thinking that our tooling will fail with these deliverables addition
and tagging but apparently that's not the case so I would suggest to follow
the 1st solution (using the existing tools, such as creating a yaml file etc
).

Le lun. 28 juin 2021 à 20:15, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> a écrit :

> On 2021-06-28 20:03:48 +0200 (+0200), Előd Illés wrote:
> [...]
> > If we stick to the tagging + deletion, then the next question is how to
> > achieve this. There are a couple of options:
> >
> > 1. use the existing tools: such as creating a yaml file under
> > deliverables/$series/ and add the $series-eol tag for the given
> repositories
> > (I understand that these are not 'real' deliverables, but does that cause
> > any issue for us?)
> > 2. implement some new mechanism, similar to option 1, but clearly
> indicate
> > that the tagging does not create any deliverables
> > 3. manual tagging + deletion
> >
> > I think the 1st option is the easiest and since we already have the whole
> > process there, we can simply use the existing tool.
> >
> > So what do you think?
> > - Is that OK to tag these open old stable branches with $series-eol tag
> and
> > then delete them?
>

WFM

> - If yes, which option from the above list is acceptable, or what else can
> > we do?
>

The first one.

[...]
>
> My two cents, I think it's okay to tag those old branches and delete
> them, and I support option 1 as it helps create a bit of a
> breadcrumb trail for future reflection.
>
> As for how they got overlooked, I expect you're right. In the past,
> well before we had any real release automation and tracking,
> projects asked the Infra team to delete their old branches, and
> quite often did not provide a complete list.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>


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