On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:33:13PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: >> It's that time again! In looking at the list of current branches >> (excepting release and backport branches I've noticed several which >> look to be abandoned or unmaintained. Branches which have not been >> touched in over a year include (along with author and date of last >> revision, stolen from ViewVC): >> >> artem-soc-work/ r863880 3 years djames Really, >> actually, merge >> r23802 and r23803 from trunk to the artem-soc-work branc… >> atomic-revprop/ r984264 6 days danielsh Tweak the >> behaviour of a >> recently-added API to allow conveniently passing errors… >> bdb-fixes/ r858217 4 years brane Working on issue >> #2449. Move >> error_info refcount management where it belongs, t… >> capabilities-abstraction/ r869334 2 years kfogel On the >> capabilities-abstraction branch: Start unifying some of the >> capabilities… >> issue-2699-dev/ r863182 3 years dlr On the >> issue-2699-dev >> branch: Improve locking error message. * subversion/libsv… >> issue-2897/ r869309 2 years kameshj On the >> issue-2897 branch: >> Improve documentation. * subversion/libsvn_client/me… >> issue-2897-take2/ r875276 19 months kameshj On >> issue-2897-take2: >> Merge from ^/trunk revisions r35038 through r35201. >> issue-3081/ r869126 2 years kfogel On the issue-3081 >> branch: * >> 3081-repro/: New directory, with patches, repro scr… >> meta-data-versioning/ r858153 4 years pmarek >> Change the "live" >> properties only if they have really changed. Without this chan… >> perl-bindings-improvements/ r867175 2 years jpeacock >> Merge with >> tr...@27098 >> record_exact_merge_and_commit_revs/ r868556 2 years >> kameshj On >> the 'record_exact_merge_and_commit_revs' branch, merge 28395:28481 >> from /trun… >> scheme-bindings/ r869778 2 years >> scons-build-system/ r862146 3 years danderson Make >> the source >> path creator safer. * build/builder.py (SvnBuild._make_src_… >> server-l10n/ r857339 4 years dlr * >> subversion/mod_dav_svn/lang.c >> (sort_lang_pref): Swap return values to correc… >> status--filter/ r867402 2 years epg *** Just >> stashing this away >> until after 1.5 branches. Add status --filter, for … >> svnserve-ssl/ r859467 4 years mbk Make svnserve >> SSL config items >> repo-conf-dir-relative, rather than absolute path… >> youngest-common-ancestor/ r867405 2 years cmpilato >> Begin work on >> a client-side youngest-common-ancestor API. NOTE: This code is… > > That list is quite hard to read here. > Here's a shorter alternative (svn ls -v ^/subversion/branches): > > 986608 stefan2 Aug 18 11:29 ./ > 873205 hwright Sep 17 2008 1.0.x/ > 873092 cmpilato Sep 10 2008 1.1.x/ > 873092 cmpilato Sep 10 2008 1.2.x/ > 873208 hwright Sep 17 2008 1.3.x/ > 904181 philip Jan 28 2010 1.4.x/ > 904182 philip Jan 28 2010 1.5.x/ > 875595 stylesen Jan 28 2009 1.5.x-issue2489/ > 877232 pburba Apr 10 2009 1.5.x-issue3392/ > 876852 pburba Mar 25 2009 1.5.x-r36775/ > 877215 cmpilato Apr 09 2009 1.5.x-r37137/ > 877733 stylesen May 09 2009 1.5.x-r37646/ > 877856 pburba May 19 2009 1.5.x-r37779/ > 879745 pburba Sep 29 2009 1.5.x-r39109/ > 880457 stsp Nov 05 2009 1.5.x-r40200/ > 984934 danielsh Aug 12 21:54 1.6.x/ > 956644 pburba Jun 21 19:16 1.6.x-issue3242-reintegrate/ > 958108 pburba Jun 25 22:42 1.6.x-issue3646/ > 964472 pburba Jul 15 17:47 1.6.x-issue3648/ > 966852 pburba Jul 22 22:43 1.6.x-issue3657/ > 966542 stylesen Jul 22 10:45 1.6.x-issue3683/ > 879771 stylesen Sep 30 2009 1.6.x-r39692/ > 981459 stsp Aug 02 13:25 1.6.x-r980811/ > 981926 danielsh Aug 03 17:23 1.6.x-r981921/ > 929382 peters Mar 31 07:13 1.6.x-wc-ng-error/ > 863880 djames Mar 14 2007 artem-soc-work/ > 984264 danielsh Aug 11 01:26 atomic-revprop/ > 881688 cmpilato Nov 18 2009 authz-overhaul/ > 858217 brane Jan 18 2006 bdb-fixes/ > 869334 kfogel Feb 10 2008 capabilities-abstraction/ > 929295 pburba Mar 30 23:22 fs-successor-ids/ > 984925 hwright Aug 12 21:26 ignore-mergeinfo/ > 863182 dlr Jan 19 2007 issue-2699-dev/ > 869309 kameshj Feb 08 2008 issue-2897/ > 875276 kameshj Jan 13 2009 issue-2897-take2/ > 869126 kfogel Jan 26 2008 issue-3081/ > 892311 cmpilato Dec 18 2009 issue-3550-dev/ > 858153 pmarek Jan 12 2006 meta-data-versioning/ > 889314 philip Dec 10 2009 obliterate-like-deltify/ > 986608 stefan2 Aug 18 11:29 performance/ > 867175 jpeacock Oct 11 2007 perl-bindings-improvements/ > 956582 hwright Jun 21 15:38 py-tests-as-modules/ > 929295 pburba Mar 30 23:22 python-3-compatibility/ > 868556 kameshj Dec 14 2007 record_exact_merge_and_commit_revs/ > 869778 ? Mar 05 2008 scheme-bindings/ > 862146 danderso Oct 21 2006 scons-build-system/ > 857339 dlr Nov 09 2005 server-l10n/ > 867402 epg Oct 23 2007 status--filter/ > 859467 mbk Apr 16 2006 svnserve-ssl/ > 867405 cmpilato Oct 23 2007 youngest-common-ancestor/ > >> Could folks take a look at these branches and justify their continued >> existence? It would also be nice to include plans to continue working >> on them, or issues which keep them from being merged to trunk. > > The two that belong to me (1.5.x-r40200 and 1.6.x-r980811) should stay. > They both have nominations sitting in their release branch's STATUS files.
I'd prefer the leave *all* the backport branches, we can remove them when the release line is obsoleted. -Hyrum