On Wednesday 24 December 2014 00:04:22 Ben Cooksley wrote: > The first seems the least contentious: allowing all developers to > delete branches on our mainline repositories, except for certain > protected branches (like "master" and "KDE/*" for instance). > > Any suggestions or variations on this?
I think "master" and "KDE/*" is a reasonable set of protected branches, and allowing deleting other branches should be fine, given the backup system. > Note: the protected branches really do need to be universal across all > repositories to be effective - otherwise the effort required to add > the protection will introduce an extremely high maintenance burden. Also, having consistency helps people working across multiple projects, which I have always got the impression is something we encourage. Alex