feat: enable prevent branch protection rules (#604)

also:
- refactor deprecated config
- remove unnecessary jira config

Signed-off-by: Sandra Parsick <[email protected]>

Author: sparsick

.asf.yaml

@@ -30,11 +30,13 @@ github:
     rebase: true
   autolink_jira:
     - MCHANGES
-  del_branch_on_merge: true
+  protected_branches:
+    master: { }
+  pull_requests:
+    del_branch_on_merge: true
   features:
     issues: true
 notifications:
   commits: [email protected]
   issues: [email protected]
   pullrequests: [email protected]
-  jira_options: link label