The expiration is currently set to one year, but we can (and should!)
change that for nightlies. That work is being tracked in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1145300

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen <rya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/30/2015 3:43 PM, Chris AtLee wrote:
>
>> The RelEng, Cloud Services and Taskcluster teams have been doing a lot of
>> work behind the scenes over the past few months to migrate the backend
>> storage for builds from the old "FTP" host to S3. While we've tried to
>> make
>> this as seamless as possible, the new system is not a 100% drop-in
>> replacement for the old system, resulting in some confusion about where to
>> find certain types of builds.
>>
>> At the same time, we've been working on publishing builds to the
>> Taskcluster Index [1]. This service provides a way to find a build given
>> various different attributes, such as its revision or date it was built.
>> Our plan is to make the index be the primary mechanism for discovering
>> build artifacts. As part of the ongoing buildbot to Taskcluster migration
>> project, builds happening on Taskcluster will no longer upload to
>> https://archive.mozilla.org (aka https://ftp.mozilla.org). Once we shut
>> off
>> platforms in buildbot, the index will be the only mechanism for
>> discovering
>> new builds.
>>
>> I posted to planet Mozilla last week [2] with some more examples and
>> details. Please explore the index, and ask questions about how to find
>> what
>> you're looking for!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> [1] http://docs.taskcluster.net/services/index/
>> [2]
>> http://atlee.ca/blog/posts/firefox-builds-on-the-taskcluster-index.html
>>
>> If I understand correctly, Taskcluster builds are only archived for one
> year, whereas we have nightly archives going back 10+ years now. What are
> our options for long-term archiving in this setup?
>
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