<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Feb 2017, at 19:35, George Joseph <<a href="mailto:gjoseph@digium.com" class="">gjoseph@digium.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">No hurry but since the git migration and the availability of GitHub, do we really need to keep the team branches at all?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">An important aspect for me with all my subversion branches was that all the code was contributed under </div><div class="">the license agreement for Digium to use. I also got a lot of help maintaining them with the automatic </div><div class="">tools that was implemented in subversion, where, as an example, I got email when things broke and did not</div><div class="">merge automatically. This made it possible to maintain a large amount of branches.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With those tools gone I don’t benefit as much from using the central repository and no one else</div><div class="">seems to bother about the licensing part either, which I felt was important.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven’t found a new home for all my patches, so please keep them somewhere. Most of them</div><div class="">are in daily use with many large service providers over the world. I get feedback on their use</div><div class="">all the time. To me it feels like they’re an important part of code for the community, regardless</div><div class="">if they are integrated into the core distribution or not.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/O</div></body></html>