Changes to branch management

[Alex Merry]

On Thursday 25 December 2014 20:29:12 Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 20:21:05 +1300
> Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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").

+1