[bug#71408] Request for merging "python-team" branch

[jgart]

> This aligns with the current (and previous) guidance on managing
> 
> branches [1]. Providing there's a consistent topic for the branch, any
> 
> name is fine (e.g. python-team-sphinx is fine).

Hi Christopher, 

That's great that my proposal already aligns with the current guidance.

I am going to try to start cherry picking uncontroversial and non failing 
patches on the python-team branch on to master and removing them from the 
python-team branch in order to reduce the size of the branch. I can then remove 
those commits from the python-team branch and force push to update it. What do 
you think of this approach before I attempt it? I'll wait on your guidance 
before doing this.

Another approach I can take is to break the branch apart into 2 or 3 smaller 
topic branches and make requests for those branches to merge one at a time.

Note that I have an underpowered old Thinkpad X230 laptop and will only be able 
to test branches that are not too large. I tried using QA/CI but it seemed to 
be in an unknown state the last time that I tried. Any suggestions here for how 
to more effectively use that QA/CI infrastructure would be much appreciated.

I tried spending a bit of time on trying to resolve the merge conflicts but it 
quickly lead down a long rabbit hole and I only have a limited time to fix so 
many merge conflicts. The process is also currently very tedious to do with 
high amounts of accuracy due to their being

1. Lots of commits that I am not familiar
2. Lots of commits
3. The branch has diverged alot since latest master so things don't cleanly 
apply anymore

What do you think of this current approach of cherry picking good commits off 
of the python-team branch in order to reduce the size?

Another issue that I ran into on the branch is that there are commits that are 
failing. For example, at commit fdef5662cce6a57aa6bfa682c7260b65ce3669b8 (the 
borgmatic changes), borgmatic fails. Should I remove this commit since it is 
broken?

all the best,

jgart