[Development] Proposal: removing the release branches after the release

[Thiago Macieira]

Em ter 27 maio 2014, às 09:26:38, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> > I don’t see any problems with having named branches for patch level
> > releases, and it is what we agreed to some months ago. Can you explain why
> > you’d want to remove the branches once the release is done?
> >
> > 
> 
> let's say it's a measure to keep the admins halfways sane. ^^
> 
> a release branch is redundant with the tag which marks its end.

What Ossi said, and what I had said in my email: there will never be a 5.3.0 
again, so there's no point in having a *branch* with that name. We only need 
the *tag* afterwards.

Having both the branch and the tag is redundant.

Also, please note that the discussion some months ago ended with both Ossi and 
I recommending that the tag be merged back into the branch for the minor 
series. That is, 5.3.0 gets tagged as v5.3.0 on release and v5.3.0 s merged 
into 5.3; after that, 5.3.0 is deleted.

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