[ sigh; now I sent it unfinished ] > On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:31 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> 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?
Did you happen to check if we even have a current nightly? ISTR several months ago C-Mike had a question about building the tarball so he could try out the Python 3 bindings where someone pointed out we post nightlies and he could use that ... but then it turned out that the process had not been working for a few years. Maybe I mis-remember or maybe it was fixed. But it could be that none of them have any value (they are all old) and we are not even making these anymore. Mark
