I saw the list and the ages, what I didn't see was a justification for removing them.
I think a proper analysis hasn't really been performed, for example the native-tls branch was merged after ng into the 7.0 series, and I didn't remove it because it serves as a reference point for the old vs the new way without digging through a bunch of history/logs/whatever ... These branches are costing us precisely nothing, just because they are old, or you don't know what they are for doesn't mean they should be removed. Good justifications include things like the branch causing confusing amongst intended audience, a branch containing code so broken that it could be considered malicious ... and I'm sure other reasons, none of which are being presented ... Cheers Joe On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 11:26, G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I think the list compiled in the initial email done by *Gabriel Caruso* > [1] is a good starting point. > > Copied here for reference. > > 15+ years old: > > - experimental/RETURN_REF > - experimetnal/RETURN_REF_PATCH > - experimental/pre_new_hash_func > - experimental/zts_stdc_scanners > - experimental/rand_redesign > - migration/EXPERIMENTAL > - experimental/namespaces > - migration/unlabaled-1.67.2 > - experimental/ZendEngine2 > - experimental/apache_hooks > - experimental/apache_hooks > - migration/unlabaled-1.3.2 > > 10+ years old: > > - migration/unlabaled-1.29.2 > - migration/INITIAL > - migration/sqlite-start > > Not even 5 years old, but no commit: > > - str_size_and_int64_56_backport > - native-tls > - zend-signal-zts > > Not even 2 years old, but no commit: > > - microseconds > > > Just to be clear I'm not asking to remove Version branches not historical > important ones, but mostly just the ones which have no commit, or are > obsolete. > > > Best regards > > George P. Banyard > > [1] https://externals.io/message/102982 >
