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[1.1.X] Document the fact that we now put dead branches in the attic.…
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… Backport of r11523 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@11524 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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ubernostrum committed Sep 11, 2009
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being actively worked on by any developer. At this point the branch is
considered closed.

Unfortunately, Subversion has no standard way of indicating
this. Generally, you can recognize a dead branch by viewing it through
the web interface, which lists the date of the most recent change to
the branch. Branches which have gone more than a month or two with no
activity can usually be assumed to be closed. In the future, the
layout of branches in the repository may be rearranged to make it
easier to tell which branches are still active (e.g., by moving closed
or abandoned branches into the ``django/branches/attic`` directory).
Unfortunately, Subversion has no standard way of indicating this. As a
workaround, branches of Django which are closed and no longer
maintained are moved into the directory ``django/branches/attic``.

For reference, the following are branches whose code eventually became
part of Django itself, and so are no longer separately maintained:
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* ``sqlalchemy``

All of the above-mentioned branches now reside in
``django/branches/attic``.


Support and bugfix branches
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