[infra][release] delete old EOL'd stable branches

Herve Beraud hberaud at redhat.com
Wed Jan 27 10:20:33 UTC 2021


Le mer. 27 janv. 2021 à 10:55, Stephen Finucane <stephenfin at redhat.com> a
écrit :

> 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,


AFAIK this is mostly to avoid issues with gates/zuul.


> but they're still relatively useful
> as a reference to explore project history and it's not like branches are
> expensive in git.
>

Tags can be used to dig in the related history.


>
> 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/
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