Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] SimRel: retention time for milestone and

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 09:00, Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:49 PM Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Are there any good reasons to keep milestone repos, release candidate
repos and repos that were replaced with a respin around for an extended
time (or forever)?

@Jonah: A similar question could be asked for the retention time of EPP
milestone and release candidates _repos_.

This should not concern the EPP artifacts for milestones and release
candidates on the download website. I think there are good reasons to
keep the EPP packages around.

E.g. the 2018-09 SimRel release contains seven p2 repos (M1, M2, M3,
RC1, RC2, and two respins). Only the final release (the last respin) is
relevant AFAICT. This would save 10-15GB disk space per release
depending on the number of respins.

I'd propose that all repos of a release (e.g. 2021-06) are kept until
the next final release (e.g. 2021-09) has dropped. Everything except the
final release repo (of 2021-06) will then be removed. This would set the
retention time to roughly three months.

WDYT?

+1. Keeping M* and RC* builds is pointless past GA.

+1 - to be clear, you can probably reduce the retention time you have proposed. AFAIK Incoming projects (like Platform / CDT) discard M and RC builds just after GA.

EPP's retention policy is to only keep releases (repos and full products) after release. I am supposed to do the cleanup on each release, but I sometimes run out of time and clean up multiple releases in one go. It is one of the steps in my release checklist. See "rsync the downloads area to archive.eclipse.org and remove non-R downloads." in https://git.eclipse.org/c/epp/org.eclipse.epp.packages.git/tree/RELEASING.md 

Jonah

 

 

Regards,

Fred


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