Redundant version files in branches override the production versions

[farshidtz]

The CI overrides the versions.json file placed at gh-pages/versions.json with those sourced from any branch.

The versions.json file on the main branch is considered as the ground truth. All others are obsolete and misleading. I suggest removing this file from release branches other than the main and modifying the CI to ignore them if kept by mistake.

[farshidtz]

There are actually two version files. One on the top level, and another under /docs directory. Looks like the one under /docs overrides the top-level version file in gh-pages branch. Same goes for the /docs/index.html and /docs/CNAME files.

[farshidtz]

The files are removed from ireland and jakarta branches, so future changes to those branches will not break the versioning.

I could not fix this for hanoi and geneva because of unrelated CI failures, preventing this fix. Those branches are assumed frozen; see #684 (comment) and #683 (comment).

To prevent this from happening without any CI solution in place, the following files should be removed from future branches created from main:

/docs/index.html
/docs/CNAME
/docs/versions.json
/versions.json