Re: [matplotlib-devel] remove old branches

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Caswell
We probably should promote all of the 'major' tags to release + get DOIs for all of the old releases. I can take care of this, but if someone wants to beat me to it, please do :) tom On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 11:32:13 AM Jens Nielsen wrote: > That makes sense. I would consider deleting "1.3.1" wh

Re: [matplotlib-devel] remove old branches

2014-11-05 Thread Jens Nielsen
That makes sense. I would consider deleting "1.3.1" which is the same commit as "v1.3.1" @Benjamin Github allows highlighting releases at https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/releases which have release notes. Perhaps we should add release notes for releases before 1.4.0 from the change log to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] remove old branches

2014-11-05 Thread Benjamin Root
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 wrote: > I am -1 on removing old tags. The _point_ of tags is they don't move. > > I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] remove old branches

2014-11-05 Thread Thomas Caswell
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 peop

Re: [matplotlib-devel] remove old branches

2014-11-05 Thread Jens Nielsen
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 approximat