Periodically remove stale branches

[SHuang-Broad]

I'll periodically check which branches Github deem as stale, and assign authors to either rebase or remove the branches.

[kvg]

Maybe we should consider auto-removing stale branches.

For the Dockstore branches, this is actually part of our release process to Terra - it's where all the WDL imports get rewritten to use full https URLs. Which is a bit unusual because these branches are deliberately generated, but not intended to ever be merged into master. I wonder if there's a way to auto-expire any branch that doesn't start with "dockstore_release_".

[SHuang-Broad]

Auto expiration might be hard for github: technically it's loosing data and I can almost hear the profanity from users....

Right now all PR branches will be auto-removed once merged. I guess it's OK to leave those that are intended to serve a quick purpose, as long as we don't become GATK-like (32 pages of stale branches....)

[SHuang-Broad]

Assigning authors

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@kvg

• kvg_autopipe
• kvg_ont_plasmodium
• kvg_beryl
• kvg_beryl_realign
• kvg_hgsvc2
• kvg_variant_metrics
• kvg_dv_fixes
• kvg_lower_canu_cov
• kvg_c3poa_patch

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@jonn-smith

• jts_margin_polish_helen
• jts_scripts_and_wdls_1

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@ericsong

• canu
• songe/broken-shasta-example
• songe/ontpf-assembly
• songe/shasta-assembly

[kvg]

@kvg to investigate rewriting the release process to not rewrite imports anymore, cutting down on number of branches we need to keep around.