Hi, -1
We shouldn't be doing work outside of the offical repos. The commit messages leave an important paper trail that are required for legal reasons / ASF policy. It also makes it (as Chris said) much harder to collaborate on stuff. Even worse you may not know these branches exist or are being worked on until the PR pops up and that can result in duplicated work or people going off in incompatible different directions. Even if it it is for “minor” stuff, an extra set of eyes of work in progress can help or encourage contributions. One option is to delete branches after they have been merged into master so they are not lying about. But I'm not sure why you care abut a branch after it has been merged into master anyway? For branches that get abandoned, I think it's better that hey are in the main repo as someone, someday may find something useful in them or decide to pick up on where it left off. If it outside the ASF then it may be lost forever. Thanks, Justin
