[Infrastructure] GitHub Branch Cleanup

[Ryan Sleevi]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 1:51 PM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) <
dzacharo at harica.gr> wrote:

> I do not oppose removing all previous "experimental" branches, etc. As you
> noted, there were several people engaging in this activity without clear
> instructions, git knowledge (including me of course) or a clear documented
> process. We are getting better at this and already have a somewhat
> documented procedure to create redline versions by using a local
> repository. I think we should nail down the procedure, check its results
> and if everything works as expected, then remove the old branches. How does
> that sound?
>

I don't see how they're related, or why we should gate removing the
branches on that process.

I can appreciate that we run the risk of more branches being introduced
after we clean them up, and that's a compelling reason to improve
documentation, but it doesn't seem a compelling reason not to remove now.
We can remove new ones that crop up later, and iteratively address whatever
problem they're solving.

I'm probably missing an important point you're trying to make, though, so
I'm hoping you can help me understand a bit more why deleting old and
unused branches should be gated on better process instructions.
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