Re: [infra] Re: [openstack-dev] Are we ready to put stable/ocata into extended maintenance mode?

On 2019-09-03 14:03:37 -0500 (-0500), Sean McGinnis wrote: [...]

The release automation can only create branches, not remove them. That is something the infra team would need to do.

I can't recall how this was handled in the past. Maybe someone from infra can shed some light on how EOL'ing stable branches should be handled for the no longer needed stable/* branches.

We've done it different ways. Sometimes it's been someone from the OpenDev/Infra sysadmins who volunteers to just delete the list of branches requested, but more recently for large batches related to EOL work we've temporarily elevated permissions for a member of the Stable Branch (now Extended Maintenance SIG?) or Release teams.