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Using +junk branches as home for small projects?

Asked by jason.k.holden

I've been searching for the policies governing use of the +junk area, because it seems to offer a good solution for where to host a series of small projects that probably aren't developed enough or useful enough to bother registering a full project on launchpad.

The best description I've come across so far is found at https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/42395, by Tim Penhey on 2008-08-19, "The +junk area is for branches that have no associated project (as you have realised), but it is not a repository, it is just a way to say that this branch has no project."

Question 1) Are +junk branches automatically deleted after some amount of inactivity?
Question 2) Is the use of +junk as a host for a series of small projects frowned upon or considered abusive?

Thanks,
Jason

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Matthew Revell (matthew.revell) said : 		#1

Hi Jason,

It sounds like +junk branches are exactly what you're looking for. Answering your questions in turn:

1) We don't delete +junk branches
2) If your project is not (yet) ready to be registered as a full project in Launchpad, +junk is the ideal solution.

The caveats for +junk branches are:

# only individuals - not teams - can register them
# you can't propose a +junk branch for merger
# they don't show up in any project's branch listing
# you don't earn karma from +junk branches.

There's a full description of them here:

https://help.launchpad.net/Code/PersonalBranches

Matthew.

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