Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Branch refs/heads/REL9_1_STABLE was removed

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 16:39, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> We discussed earlier to potentially block the creation, and removal,
>> of branches on the origin server, to prevent mistakes like this. It
>> has only happened once in almost a year, so it's probably not
>> necessary - but I wanted to raise the option anyway in case people
>> forgot about it.
>
>> The downside would be that in order to create or drop a branch *when
>> intended* a committer would need someone from the infrastructure team
>> to temporarily switch off the branch-blocking setting, and then back
>> on..
>
> I think it would be sensible to block branch removal, as there's
> basically never a scenario where we'd do that during current usage.
> I'm not excited about blocking branch addition, although I worry
> sooner or later somebody will accidentally push a private development
> branch :-(.  Is it possible to block only removal and not addition?

Yes, I think so. Either way it'll require a small addition to the
scripts we're using, so I'll try to just turn it into two different
settings. I don't see offhand any reason why this shouldn't work.

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