Request: Post 6.0 repo cleanup

LeoColomb commented 2 years ago

Terms

[X] I have read the guidelines for Contributing to Roots Projects
[X] This request is not a duplicate of an existing issue
[X] This is not a personal support request that should be posted on the Roots Discourse community

Summary

Currently the repo is hosting a lot of branches. The request/suggestion is to drop all these banches.

x.y.z-branchs
src (shall we move to an archived repo?)
nightly-svn

Exceptions(?):

nightly (packagist report usage)
nightly-git (packagist report usage, very little though)

Motivation

Why are we doing this?

Having all these branches "pollutes" a little the repo, making harder to find and maintain the relevant ones and could create confusion about tags. The new workflow won't publish branches anymore.

What use cases does it support?

That's the point, Packagist report exactly 0 download from these branches refs, with very few exceptions if we look at more than a year ago.

What is the expected outcome?

Lighter repo, easier to manage and support.

Potential conflicts / foreseeable issues

Well, this would delete content, so could eventually raise missing content errors. But will it?

Additional Context

Special case for src. Not used anymore, but contains previous code and it might be nice to move it to another repo for archive. Or not, if we don't care.

cc @retlehs @swalkinshaw

retlehs commented 2 years ago

@LeoColomb thank you for the issue, this makes sense to me :+1: do you have the correct perms on this repo to move forward with this?

regarding the src branch: we can't create a release for that since it would appear as a published version to use on packagist, right? if so, i do think it's important that we backup that history to another repo prior to deleting

LeoColomb commented 2 years ago

@retlehs Thanks for your reply!

you have the correct perms on this repo to move forward with this?

As soon as the branch protection rule is removed (I can't do that), yes I can.

regarding the src branch

You are right for packagist, ok for the backup.

retlehs commented 2 years ago

@LeoColomb :+1:

branch protection rules removed
created https://github.com/roots/wordpress-generator-legacy for the src branch history to be moved to

LeoColomb commented 2 years ago

Branches removed. src moved to https://github.com/roots/wordpress-generator-legacy, you can archive the repo if you want 😊

retlehs commented 2 years ago

@LeoColomb thank you!

roots / wordpress