Changes to branch management

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 20:21:05 +1300
Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
[...]
> > 1) Everybody can create, delete and force-push to all branches
> > except the "reserved" ones (kde/*, master, stable,... see the list).
> >
> > 2) People are free to create, delete and force-push to all branches
> > below my/$username/ (in my case, tat would be my/jkt/foo for
> > example). Only repo owners can create, delete and force-push to
> > arbitrary branch names.
[...]
> Agreed. Can we have a show of hands / etc as to which one would suit
> people best?
> 
> I will add a 3rd possibility though.
> 
> 3) People are free to create and delete to all branches below work/*.
> Creation and deletion of branches outside this would be limited to
> project admins (release managers). It also allows other developers to
> cleanup as needed so it doesn't all fall on the repository admin /
> sysadmin.
> 
> This removes developer usernames from the branch names - which is
> probably better for long term collaborative branches (which i've seen
> used in a number of projects) and doesn't make a difference for short
> term branches.

I like 3 best.

This seems like a very straight-forward solution that offers the current
level of protection for all existing branches, while allowing a lot of
flexibility in managing non-protected branches (including, importantly,
the possibility to organize by feature / purpose rather than by
"owner").

Regards
Thomas
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