Re: marking old branches as no longer maintained

On 06/28/2011 01:54 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 19:46, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> I'd like to add a feature to the buildfarm that automatically picks up any
>> new branch and automatically stops building any branch we're not maintaining
>> any more. To do the latter, I need some way for the client to detect that we
>> are or aren't interested in a branch. What I'd like to do is add a file to
>> the old back branches (say from 7.4 to 8.1 currently - I can grandfather the
>> rest) called "end-of-life-reached" or some such, with some appropriate text.
>> As a branch reaches its end of life, i.e. right before the last release we
>> make, we should add that file to the branch.
> Does this need to be driven out of the main tree? Couldn't you just
> have a "blacklist" in the buildfarm code or site? (disclaimer: I
> haven't looked at how it works so that may be a completely useless
> idea..)

Not very easily, mainly because of difficulties with MinGW SDK perl.
Building it into the code would defeat the purpose.

If it's contentious I won't bother. We've managed OK for years, and can
go on managing as we are.

cheers

andrew