An alternative would be to have a convention for personal branches. For example "tmp/ijuma/blah". I don't have a strong opinion, but it seems useful if people want to collaborate on a branch.
Ismael On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 11:02 AM Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have accumulated a number of personal branches in the github > repository: https://github.com/apache/kafka/branches/all > > All these branches have been created by committers for various > reasons, bugfix, tests. > > I wonder if we should avoid creating branches in the apache repository > (always use your own fork like regular contributors) and in the rare > cases this is necessary ensure we delete them once done? This way we > would only have branches for the various releases (3.7, 3.6, etc). > > What do you think? > > Thanks, > Mickael >