feat: enable prevent branch protection rules (#613)

also:
- refactor deprecated config

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

Author: sparsick

.asf.yaml

@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ github:
     rebase: true
   autolink_jira:
     - MDEPLOY
-  del_branch_on_merge: true
+  protected_branches:
+    master: { }
+    maven-deploy-plugin-3.x: { }
+  pull_requests:
+    del_branch_on_merge: true
   features:
     issues: true