This is definitely a good idea. Many of these branches are dead and are unlikely to contain much that can be merged in, and are therefore probably best deleted. The plan for 7 was a big simplification of much of the guts, but with the transition to neural approaches in the research community, this is unlikely to be done unless it finds a new champion.
> On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:43 AM, Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > +1 for both cleaning up branches *and* merging 7 branch into master. > > Regarding branches and Git let me read through the links and I'll share my > opinion. > > Regards, > Tommaso > > Il giorno mer 28 giu 2017 alle ore 06:41 Chris Mattmann <mattm...@apache.org> > ha scritto: > >> Hey Team, >> >> I recommend that Joshua consider adopting the Tika and/or Nutch >> contribution >> policy RE: branches and Git: >> >> https://github.com/apache/tika/#contributing-via-github >> https://github.com/apache/nutch/#contributing >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> >> On 6/27/17, 9:36 PM, "lewis john mcgibbney" <lewi...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> Two things... >> >> 1. Currently the branches for Joshua are a bit of a mess... it >> would be >> better if they were named after JIRA issues such that the mappings >> back to >> some concrete development were explicit. Does anyone want to clean >> these up? >> 2. Now that 6.1-incubating is released and live, Is there any >> desire to >> merge 7.X branch into master and continue development there? I was >> not >> involved with the 7.X development but it looked like a significant >> step >> forward... it would be a shame for that work to stagnate. >> >> Thanks, >> >> lewis >> >> -- >> http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/ >> @hectorMcSpector >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/lmcgibbney >> >> >> >>
