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Hi Infra team,

I need some help / advice from you. Some time ago I realized that there 
are multiple open stable/newton (and some older) branches as well for 
some projects.

I see there multiple kind of open EOL'd branches:

1. where there were no *-eol tag at all and thus branch is still open

2. where there exist *-eol tag, but the branch was not deleted

3. where there exist *-eol tag, the branch was probably deleted but then 
reopened and some generated patch created a new branch from the same 
branching point where the original stable/* branch was branched from.
     (some example generated patches:
        * OpenDev Migration Patch
        * Replace openstack.org git:// URLs with https://
      see specific example [1])

To clean up this I think we need some decision and manual tagging and 
branch deletion, because our tooling (openstack/releases) does not allow 
to tag on a branch that has an EOL state.

For this I would
- push release patches where that is missing from openstack/release 
(this will not do the work, as mentioned above, but needs some manual 
tagging / branch deletion afterwards) - this is only to have a better 
view of the tags and branches from openstack/releases repository
- tag branches with *-eol where that is missing
- delete branches that have already *-eol tag, even if that means we 
lose some patches (like the above mentioned generated patches)

Is this acceptable? What do you think? (Or should the two latter be done 
by Infra team via a list that I could collect?)


[1] https://paste.opendev.org/show/bCnJaKgdTrlZwDzcP3VM/

Thanks in advance,

Előd
(irc: elodilles)