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Re: Branch audit

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:43:57 +0100

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:33:13PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> It's that time again!  In looking at the list of current branches
>> (excepting release and backport branches I've noticed several which
>> look to be abandoned or unmaintained.  Branches which have not been
>> touched in over a year include (along with author and date of last
>> revision, stolen from ViewVC):
>>
>>   artem-soc-work/      r863880         3 years         djames  Really, actually, merge
>> r23802 and r23803 from trunk to the artem-soc-work branc…
>>   atomic-revprop/      r984264         6 days  danielsh        Tweak the behaviour of a
>> recently-added API to allow conveniently passing errors…
>>   bdb-fixes/   r858217         4 years         brane   Working on issue #2449. Move
>> error_info refcount management where it belongs, t…
>>   capabilities-abstraction/    r869334         2 years         kfogel  On the
>> capabilities-abstraction branch: Start unifying some of the
>> capabilities…
>>   issue-2699-dev/      r863182         3 years         dlr     On the issue-2699-dev
>> branch: Improve locking error message. * subversion/libsv…
>>   issue-2897/  r869309         2 years         kameshj         On the issue-2897 branch:
>> Improve documentation. * subversion/libsvn_client/me…
>>   issue-2897-take2/    r875276         19 months       kameshj         On issue-2897-take2:
>> Merge from ^/trunk revisions r35038 through r35201.
>>   issue-3081/  r869126         2 years         kfogel  On the issue-3081 branch: *
>> 3081-repro/: New directory, with patches, repro scr…
>>   meta-data-versioning/        r858153         4 years         pmarek  Change the "live"
>> properties only if they have really changed. Without this chan…
>>   perl-bindings-improvements/  r867175         2 years         jpeacock        Merge with
>> trunk_at_27098
>>   record_exact_merge_and_commit_revs/  r868556         2 years         kameshj         On
>> the 'record_exact_merge_and_commit_revs' branch, merge 28395:28481
>> from /trun…
>>   scheme-bindings/     r869778         2 years
>>   scons-build-system/  r862146         3 years         danderson       Make the source
>> path creator safer. * build/builder.py (SvnBuild._make_src_…
>>   server-l10n/         r857339         4 years         dlr     * subversion/mod_dav_svn/lang.c
>> (sort_lang_pref): Swap return values to correc…
>>   status--filter/      r867402         2 years         epg     *** Just stashing this away
>> until after 1.5 branches. Add status --filter, for …
>>   svnserve-ssl/        r859467         4 years         mbk     Make svnserve SSL config items
>> repo-conf-dir-relative, rather than absolute path…
>>   youngest-common-ancestor/    r867405         2 years         cmpilato        Begin work on
>> a client-side youngest-common-ancestor API. NOTE: This code is…
>
> That list is quite hard to read here.
> Here's a shorter alternative (svn ls -v ^/subversion/branches):
>
>  986608 stefan2               Aug 18 11:29 ./
>  873205 hwright               Sep 17  2008 1.0.x/
>  873092 cmpilato              Sep 10  2008 1.1.x/
>  873092 cmpilato              Sep 10  2008 1.2.x/
>  873208 hwright               Sep 17  2008 1.3.x/
>  904181 philip                Jan 28  2010 1.4.x/
>  904182 philip                Jan 28  2010 1.5.x/
>  875595 stylesen              Jan 28  2009 1.5.x-issue2489/
>  877232 pburba                Apr 10  2009 1.5.x-issue3392/
>  876852 pburba                Mar 25  2009 1.5.x-r36775/
>  877215 cmpilato              Apr 09  2009 1.5.x-r37137/
>  877733 stylesen              May 09  2009 1.5.x-r37646/
>  877856 pburba                May 19  2009 1.5.x-r37779/
>  879745 pburba                Sep 29  2009 1.5.x-r39109/
>  880457 stsp                  Nov 05  2009 1.5.x-r40200/
>  984934 danielsh              Aug 12 21:54 1.6.x/
>  956644 pburba                Jun 21 19:16 1.6.x-issue3242-reintegrate/
>  958108 pburba                Jun 25 22:42 1.6.x-issue3646/
>  964472 pburba                Jul 15 17:47 1.6.x-issue3648/
>  966852 pburba                Jul 22 22:43 1.6.x-issue3657/
>  966542 stylesen              Jul 22 10:45 1.6.x-issue3683/
>  879771 stylesen              Sep 30  2009 1.6.x-r39692/
>  981459 stsp                  Aug 02 13:25 1.6.x-r980811/
>  981926 danielsh              Aug 03 17:23 1.6.x-r981921/
>  929382 peters                Mar 31 07:13 1.6.x-wc-ng-error/
>  863880 djames                Mar 14  2007 artem-soc-work/
>  984264 danielsh              Aug 11 01:26 atomic-revprop/
>  881688 cmpilato              Nov 18  2009 authz-overhaul/
>  858217 brane                 Jan 18  2006 bdb-fixes/
>  869334 kfogel                Feb 10  2008 capabilities-abstraction/
>  929295 pburba                Mar 30 23:22 fs-successor-ids/
>  984925 hwright               Aug 12 21:26 ignore-mergeinfo/
>  863182 dlr                   Jan 19  2007 issue-2699-dev/
>  869309 kameshj               Feb 08  2008 issue-2897/
>  875276 kameshj               Jan 13  2009 issue-2897-take2/
>  869126 kfogel                Jan 26  2008 issue-3081/
>  892311 cmpilato              Dec 18  2009 issue-3550-dev/
>  858153 pmarek                Jan 12  2006 meta-data-versioning/
>  889314 philip                Dec 10  2009 obliterate-like-deltify/
>  986608 stefan2               Aug 18 11:29 performance/
>  867175 jpeacock              Oct 11  2007 perl-bindings-improvements/
>  956582 hwright               Jun 21 15:38 py-tests-as-modules/
>  929295 pburba                Mar 30 23:22 python-3-compatibility/
>  868556 kameshj               Dec 14  2007 record_exact_merge_and_commit_revs/
>  869778  ?                    Mar 05  2008 scheme-bindings/
>  862146 danderso              Oct 21  2006 scons-build-system/
>  857339 dlr                   Nov 09  2005 server-l10n/
>  867402 epg                   Oct 23  2007 status--filter/
>  859467 mbk                   Apr 16  2006 svnserve-ssl/
>  867405 cmpilato              Oct 23  2007 youngest-common-ancestor/
>
>> Could folks take a look at these branches and justify their continued
>> existence?  It would also be nice to include plans to continue working
>> on them, or issues which keep them from being merged to trunk.
>
> The two that belong to me (1.5.x-r40200 and 1.6.x-r980811) should stay.
> They both have nominations sitting in their release branch's STATUS files.

I'd prefer the leave *all* the backport branches, we can remove them
when the release line is obsoleted.

-Hyrum
Received on 2010-08-18 12:44:36 CEST

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