Delete unmaintained branches

[rootulp]

It's difficult to see which branches are actively maintained on this repo. If we delete unmaintained branches in Github UI, then we can enable contributors to more easily see the branches that are relevant, (likely a handful including v0.34.x-celestia and v0.35.x-celestia). I don't think this is risky b/c it's possible to restore a deleted branch from Github UI.

[rootulp]

@evan-forbes any objections to me doing this for branches that haven't been updated in the past month?

[rootulp]

To reduce the frequency of this chore, a repo admin should enable this setting on https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/settings:

[evan-forbes]

To reduce the frequency of this chore, a repo admin should enable this setting on https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/settings:

this is already set :grimacing: I think I just need to stop polluting origin :sweat_smile:

I'll move all of my old branches over to a fork later today

[rootulp]

Sounds good, please assign back to me after you move branches and I can delete the remainder of stale branches

[rootulp]

We also want to deprecate master to avoid links to outdated content. Example: https://github.com/celestiaorg/docs/blob/069623334073d5b2c4b626f732f016c2ede18841/docs/concepts/how-celestia-works/data-availability-layer.md?plain=1#L152

[evan-forbes]

apologies again for the delay on this, but I've removed all of my branches. There are still a few old ones that are not mine, but I don't feel comfortable deleting other people's branches.

some of them were quite nostalgic. I almost just want to keep them forever as graffiti on my own fork lol

[rootulp]

apologies again for the delay on this

No worries on the delay, this is a low priority chore.

I don't feel comfortable deleting other people's branches.

It seems possible to restore deleted branches so I'm comfortable doing this unless you object.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4674226/does-github-keep-deleted-remote-branches-in-history-if-so-can-those-be-restore

[rootulp]

master has a branch protection rule that prevents me from deleting it

[rootulp]

I deleted branches that haven't been touched in over 6 months: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/branches

We're down to 10 branches.

Tagging @evan-forbes if you have admin rights to delete the master branch.

[evan-forbes]

I'm opposed to deleting the master branch, as it has a lot of history for the work we did before we started the new approach of treating tendermint as a black box. Its likely not that useful, but perhaps we'll want to remember some weird thing that we did.

[rootulp]

If it's strictly for reference purposes, are you open to renaming master to deprecated-master in order to avoid confusion like https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-core/pull/795#pullrequestreview-1030657928

[evan-forbes]

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