Bug: old branches on gh-pages

[AlexanderLanin]

On https://github.com/eclipse-score/score/tree/gh-pages we see a lot of old branches/directories. That's quite confusing. We need to delete the obsolete ones.

[MaximilianSoerenPollak]

Seems that 'open' PR's aren't deleted, which is correct.

We may need to delete the branches folders manualy.

[nicu1989]

I suggest that the PR pages be published in a dir instead of root of gh-pages.
Also, should we handle stale PRs? Meaning that PRs with no activity for more than a month be marked as stale and not show in "version selector". Also if the PR becomes active again we can unmark as stale. I think we can do this through versions.json.

[MaximilianSoerenPollak]

I do like the Stale idea. I'm indifferent on dir vs gh-pages stuff, you got more knowledge there than me, I trust your judgement.

[AlexanderLanin]

marking as stale sounds like additional effort.. for now let's make sure the closed PRs are removed?!
And the pre-PR branch based builds.

[nicu1989]

Checked the current gh-pages situation and the existing folders correspond to open PRs and existing non-fork created branches.

Seems like the automated clean-up works ok.

[MaximilianSoerenPollak]

@nicu1989 so we can close this ?

[AlexanderLanin]

Ah ok, that's already good. But I thought we removed support for branches:

score/.github/workflows/docs.yml

Line 20 in 4dc266d

- main # docs are built only on push to main branch, for feature branches there are PR builds

[nicu1989]

Ah ok, that's already good. But I thought we removed support for branches:

score/.github/workflows/docs.yml

Line 20 in 4dc266d

• main # docs are built only on push to main branch, for feature branches there are PR builds

We did remove support but it was on 25 Feb: 025d679

All those branches were created before that date and are still present so thats why their respective folders still exist in gh-pages. From my POV we can close the ticket as the current clean-up workflow works as intended.

[AlexanderLanin]

Wait. Conclusion missing. So we need to delete those branches and then they will disappear from pages? That means we need to figure out for each branch if it is still relevant etc…