----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Flink" <tfl...@redhat.com> > To: qa-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 8:24:12 PM > Subject: Re: Log Data Retention > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:20:03 -0600 > Tim Flink <tfl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I wonder if this ends up being the email list equivalent of talking to > myself :) > > It just seemed like a cleaner way to separate my answers from the > questions > > <snip> > > The questions raised so far are: > > > > 1. How long is long enough to keep log and execution data? > > 6-12 months should be more than enough but it might be worth trying > to keep a release-lifetime of logs (~18 months, including pre-release) >
I guess that depends on how much storage we have but it seems to me that 6 months is more than enough. What are the use cases for going back to more than 6 months old task results? > > 2. Should be be cleaning up anything that references builds/artifacts > > (like links in resultsdb) before we delete them? > > Ideally, yes but I don't think it's worth more than a day's effort > for one person if we have proper 404 processing on the machine hosting > the artifacts. > > If it does become an issue in the future, it wouldn't be difficult to > go back and change dead links if we needed to. > Proper 404 is good enough for me. > > 3. Do we want to put resources into figuring out whether the result > > was a PASS or FAIL before deleting it? > > No, it's not worth the effort - I'd rather just store more logs than > put much dev time into deciding which logs to delete > Agreed, we have more important tasks we could use our limited resources for. > > 4. Should fesco be involved in this decision? > > Either way - I suspect that they're not going to have much of an > opinion and it adds bureaucracy to the process but I suppose that the > decision would be a bit more "official" if we asked them. > Not sure if we need to ask them but I suppose asking wouldn't hurt. Thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ qa-devel mailing list qa-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/qa-devel
