Re: [Tracker] WARNING: Cleaning up old branches, reply or loose it :)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 12:03 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So, I managed to write a script to list all remote branches with the
> last commit date and by who so we could figure which branches can be
> deleted more easily.
>
> Below is that list. If you don't speak up, any branch older than 1 month
> (seems reasonable, unless someone complains) will be removed by the end
> of next week. If you want to keep it, please let me know. There are some
> special branches that can be kept for historical reasons which may be
> listed below. Please indicate in that case too.

Thank you everyone for the comments. I have compiled another list based
on that feedback as a final check before I go ahead here. So this is the
plan:

Removing even with activity in last month:
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Branch 'cpuaffinity' -- last commit was 19 hours ago by Martyn Russell (deb4b22)
Branch 'dbus-fd-experiment' -- last commit was 8 days ago by Adrien Bustany (1e87012)
Branch 'disable-fts' -- last commit was 2 weeks ago by Aleksander Morgado (fb1b148)
Branch 'removable-opticals' -- last commit was 2 weeks ago by Aleksander Morgado (0af92d3)

Not touching due to lack of feedback from last commit author
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Branch 'data-gen' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Mikael Ottela (d168aeb)
Branch 'fts-limits' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Mikael Ottela (22253e4)

Not touching for historical reasons
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Branch 'indexer-split' -- last commit was 1 year, 9 months ago by Martyn James Russell (9f8cdb8)
Branch 'tracker-0.6' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Petr Kovar (9732409)
Branch 'tracker-store' -- last commit was 1 year ago by JÃrg Billeter (1355183)

Merging before removing
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Branch 'dbus-performance' -- last commit was 3 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (f014f1a)

Actively being worked on or considered future propositions
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Branch 'domain-specific-indexes' -- last commit was 19 hours ago by Philip Van Hoof (2379c8b)
Branch 'drop-inotify' -- last commit was 3 minutes ago by Aleksander Morgado (8df4412)
Branch 'extractor-dbus-fd' -- last commit was 2 days ago by Adrien Bustany (ea99acd)
Branch 'journal-compression-review' -- last commit was 8 days ago by JÃrg Billeter (cf7ef5c)
Branch 'merge' -- last commit was 3 weeks ago by JÃrg Billeter (2c40241)
Branch 'mime-message-extractor' -- last commit was 10 days ago by Saleem Abdulrasool (88aec2f)
Branch 'miner-gdata' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Adrien Bustany (0620baf)
Branch 'miner-twitter' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Adrien Bustany (e76a441)
Branch 'needle' -- last commit was 2 days ago by Martyn Russell (850a689)
Branch 'playlist' -- last commit was 3 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (275b322)
Branch 'quad' -- last commit was 11 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (66106db)
Branch 'rss-enclosures' -- last commit was 5 days ago by Roberto Guido (66a5c3c)
Branch 'sqlite-batch-locking' -- last commit was 7 weeks ago by JÃrg Billeter (8173a3c)
Branch 'sql-error-checks' -- last commit was 6 weeks ago by Carlos Garnacho (1bd168f)
Branch 'sql-error-checks-and-fixes' -- last commit was 5 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (f077bdd)
Branch 'sql-error-checks-for-master' -- last commit was 5 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (1e8bda9)
Branch 'tracker-0.8' -- last commit was 3 hours ago by Jorge GonzÃlez (1d14293)
Branch 'tracker-sql' -- last commit was 3 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (aa33586)
Branch 'zeitgeist' -- last commit was 7 weeks ago by Rob Taylor (085e527)

Removing due to no longer required (last commit was > 1 month ago)
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Branch 'album-art-to-libtracker-extract' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Martyn Russell (d1f1384)
Branch 'albumprops' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (d30bdc8)
Branch 'anonymous-file-nodes' -- last commit was 5 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (60658be)
Branch 'async-queries' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (88358dd)
Branch 'async-queries-cursor-review' -- last commit was 2 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (15c98f0)
Branch 'async-queries-due' -- last commit was 3 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (52634ce)
Branch 'binary-log' -- last commit was 6 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (1402aa4)
Branch 'busy-notifications' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (b81cf51)
Branch 'busy-notifications-for-master' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (cbcf6f4)
Branch 'crawling-interval' -- last commit was 4 weeks ago by Martyn Russell (876f4a3)
Branch 'drop-unac' -- last commit was 4 weeks ago by Aleksander Morgado (604599a)
Branch 'events' -- last commit was 4 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (1295b95)
Branch 'extractor-remove-word-counting-review' -- last commit was 6 weeks ago by Aleksander Morgado (9e42191)
Branch 'extractor-timeout-safe' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (f9e4555)
Branch 'fixed-cursor' -- last commit was 10 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (7f8dea6)
Branch 'fixed-cursor-for-master' -- last commit was 10 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (13265a5)
Branch 'fts' -- last commit was 3 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (51da22a)
Branch 'functions' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (be6769f)
Branch 'gio-dir-monitors' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Martyn Russell (448e8da)
Branch 'gnome-master-test' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Martyn Russell (d5542cb)
Branch 'graph' -- last commit was 5 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (3afeff8)
Branch 'hierarchical-indexing' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Martyn Russell (095c179)
Branch 'im' -- last commit was 5 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (361ef77)
Branch 'journal' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (ba0f810)
Branch 'journal-compression' -- last commit was 5 weeks ago by JÃrg Billeter (09e83f6)
Branch 'journal-rotating' -- last commit was 7 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (e25951c)
Branch 'libtracker-data' -- last commit was 1 year, 8 months ago by Martyn James Russell (02007ec)
Branch 'libtracker-extract' -- last commit was 5 months ago by Martyn Russell (92a1cee)
Branch 'libtracker-extract-fixes' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (4c38f0e)
Branch 'license-fixes' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Martyn Russell (af3c81b)
Branch 'live-config-changes' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (294669a)
Branch 'localtime' -- last commit was 4 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (11198d5)
Branch 'localtime-for-master' -- last commit was 4 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (afff518)
Branch 'location' -- last commit was 5 months ago by Mikael Ottela (c35cfeb)
Branch 'miner-flickr-network-aware' -- last commit was 5 weeks ago by Adrien Bustany (3f8ad7c)
Branch 'miner-fs-queries-performance' -- last commit was 2 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (e2495e8)
Branch 'miner-rss' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Michele Tameni (b78eba9)
Branch 'mounts-without-volumes' -- last commit was 2 weeks ago by Martyn Russell (5b31f98)
Branch 'network-status' -- last commit was 9 weeks ago by Adrien Bustany (f60dc3c)
Branch 'new-tracker-search-tool' -- last commit was 9 months ago by Jamie McCracken (cb7ee66)
Branch 'ontology-cope' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (e67d37b)
Branch 'ontology-cope-for-master' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (1d55780)
Branch 'parser-unicode-libs-review' -- last commit was 6 weeks ago by Aleksander Morgado (83f65b4)
Branch 'prefixed-private-symbols' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Sven Herzberg (e12d315)
Branch 'property-changes' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (2ae0161)
Branch 'property-changes-for-review' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (c9624b3)
Branch 'refactor-extractor' -- last commit was 5 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (82f5b22)
Branch 'rtcom' -- last commit was 7 weeks ago by JÃrg Billeter (b756731)
Branch 'secondary-index' -- last commit was 7 months ago by JÃrg Billeter (0b95fec)
Branch 'secondary-index-for-master' -- last commit was 6 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (7ab56eb)
Branch 'secondary-index-upported' -- last commit was 6 weeks ago by Philip Van Hoof (c650001)
Branch 'tablelockedproblem' -- last commit was 8 weeks ago by Ivan Frade (7896ae7)
Branch 'thumbnails' -- last commit was 5 months ago by Philip Van Hoof (601b1f9)
Branch 'tracker-0.8-with-ontology-cope-and-miner-fs-index' -- last commit was 6 weeks ago by Martyn Russell 
(f2e473e)
Branch 'tracker-client-writeback' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (ea4b5d5)
Branch 'tracker-store-ipc' -- last commit was 1 year, 1 month ago by Philip Van Hoof (4f92f41)
Branch 'tst-ui-fixes' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (2142267)
Branch 'typed-literals' -- last commit was 3 months ago by Ivan Frade (06fb420)
Branch 'urn-in-extractor' -- last commit was 4 months ago by Carlos Garnacho (d42e09f)
Branch 'vpath-build-review' -- last commit was 7 weeks ago by Aleksander Morgado (c700ce8)
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If anyone has any comments, please say so over the weekend, I know I
said I would remove the unused branches by the end of this week, but I
will give people a few days to reflect on the above list first. From
Monday I will start acting on this list.

Thanks,

-- 
Regards,
Martyn