[Building Sakai] cleaning up old release 'branches'

[Matthew Jones]

I agree Steve, this was something we had talked about in the past but never
progressed on because it was going to be a lot of work. Directories like
2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.8.0 can be safely cleaned up from all of the branches.

Really the only thing that should be present in branches directory are the
SAK branches and the 2.#.x branches. For awhile the release process needed
these as temporary folders because properties needed to be modified for
pure-poms before each release, but with everything in master now, and the
use of profiles, we don't need to make any temporary branches for anything
other than kernel and master. (Which I haven't been super good at cleaning
up after either)

I agree with David that many SAK branches can probably be cleaned up too
but we'd want to identify:
- If that SAK directory has been merged into trunk or not
  - If not why hasn't it been merged
     - Just nobody has paid attention to this feature and it was forgotten?
     - It is/was an unfinished feature
     - It is/was a feature that was never started
  - If it has been merged it can be deleted

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:41 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>wrote:

>  +1
>
> There are also areas where old SAK branches can be cleaned up ...
>
> D
>
>
> On 08/11/2012 10:36 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>  There are a number of release branches listed here which could be
> potentially confusing for users:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//sakai/branches/
>
>  Basically anything that doesn't end in a .x (or -all and a few others)
> are not actually branches, they are staging area for the release which has
> already been tagged.
>
>  For example:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//sakai/branches/sakai-2.5.5/
>
>  Users should be using the actual official tag:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//sakai/tags/sakai-2.5.5/
>
>  I'm proposing they be removed. This has been done in the past (hence
> lack of 2.3 and 2.4 'branches' but hasnt been done for a while.
>
>  Any objections?
>
>  cheers,
> Steve
>
>
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