Same here. I like the old tags for historical research purposes. Now, if
there was a way for github to only display the N most recent tags, I would
go for that...

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Thomas Caswell <tcasw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am -1 on removing old tags.  The _point_ of tags is they don't move.
>
> IPython is a younger project, moving much faster, and have an interest in
> keeping everyone close to the bleeding edge, we don't have that luxury.
> For a long time debian shipped an rc (1.3.1rc1 iirc) so there is evidence
> of people in the wild caring about arbitrary tags.
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 10:01:51 AM Jens Nielsen <jenshniel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I removed the rgb2lab_local branch now (I decided that this is not the
>> way to go and I have a local copy in my own remote of this). On a related
>> note should be consider removing tags for old release candidates? I know
>> that IPython does this and it does clean up the tags quite a bit since
>> approximately half the tags are for release candidates.
>>
>>
>> Jens
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Thomas Caswell <tcasw...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is done now.  All of the branches were fully merged except for
>>> v1.1.x which had a single line change to contents.rst which ended up on the
>>> main branch through other means.
>>>
>>> I have local branches pointing to all of the removed branches so if
>>> there is panic about their removal and _everyone_ runs a prune command on
>>> the upstream repos we still have this information around.
>>>
>>> I left rgb2lab_local because there is still an open PR against it, but
>>> will go away when we close that PR.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On Sat Nov 01 2014 at 2:32:19 PM Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2014/11/01, 5:49 AM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
>>>> > Does anyone protest to removing all of the branches from the main repo
>>>> > except:
>>>> >
>>>> >   - master
>>>> >   - v1.4.x
>>>> >   - v1.4.2-doc
>>>> >
>>>> > Having old branches around can lead to confusion (see
>>>> > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/3748#issuecomm
>>>> ent-61372162).
>>>> >
>>>> > Tom
>>>>
>>>> Seems to me like a good idea.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
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