[Numpy-discussion] Remove current 1.7 branch?

[Travis Oliphant]

Thanks for the review.   I think it will be safe as well.  Ondrej is traveling to Prague at the moment.  When he arrives, let's here what he has to say and then move forward. 

-Travis

On Jul 12, 2012, at 12:42 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:

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> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Thouis (Ray) Jones <thouis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Travis and I agree that it would be appropriate to remove the current 1.7.x
> > branch and branch again after a code freeze. That way we can avoid the pain
> > and potential errors of backports. It is considered bad form to mess with
> > public repositories that way, so another option would be to rename the
> > branch, although I'm not sure how well that would work. Suggestions?
> 
> I might be mistaken, but if the branch is merged into master (even if
> that merge makes no changes), I think it's safe to delete it at that
> point (and recreate it at a later date with the same name) with
> regards to remote repositories.  It should be fairly easy to test.
> 
> 
> Looking at the log, the only commits I see are the release notes and a backport of bento build fixes. I think it is safe to delete the branch. 
> 
> Chuck
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