> On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [sigh; sent unfinished] > >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:19 AM Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Not sure who is keeping an eye on the buildbot config, but Infra has been >> looking at the buildmaster and found that we (svn) have about 14G of >> nightlies laying around since 2015 (!!) > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/index.html > https://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/dist/ > > It seems that we likely only need (say) one week's worth of nightlies (each > is about 50M). What is the appropriate number? > > Is there a buildbot config option that is missing, that is avoiding a purge > of these files? Or does something "behind the scenes" need to take > responsibility? > > I believe Infra is likely to start *enforcing* some duration and overall disk > usage constraints. This likely won't impact us, as long as we purge old > builds according to our desired retention. So I think the more important > concern for our community is the question of "how many nightlies do we want > to retain?" ... I suspect whatever answer will be fine, but finding an > accepted consensus would be helpful. > > I'll lead with this stake-in-the-ground: > ** retain one week of nightly builds >
+1 a week seems reasonable Do we only make a new nightly if the /trunk HEAD has advanced since the last one? If so, then are you suggesting we keep the last 7 nightlies? Mark
