+1 for dropping them.  To me, it is the equivalent to keeping around old
builds of code when all you need is the source code.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 8:28 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any concerns or objections to dropping the asf-site-old-builds branch
> from the accumulo-website repo?
> I temporarily kept it around after I updated us to use the automated
> site staging features of .asf.yaml, "just in case", but never had any
> real justification to keep it.
>
> Here's some points in favor of dropping:
>
> * It contains nothing that can't be regenerated from the markdown,
> whose history we still keep
> * We never preserved an extra copy of the generated site HTML when we
> were using CMS, so I don't think we need to keep a copy of this
> * I discussed this with @fluxo in Slack #asfinfra, and they described
> the generated content as "disposable" from INFRA perspective, and I
> agree
> * Since it doesn't have history in common with any other branch,
> keeping it around makes the git repo larger than necessary, and more
> time to do a new git clone
> * Reducing the number of git branches makes it easier to know where to
> contribute
> * Mostly, we just don't need it for any purpose
>
> Points against dropping:
>
> ... I can't think of any ....
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher
>

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