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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:36:42 +0700
From: "Stepan Mishura" <stepan.mishura@gmail.com>
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: [build] Retaining too many snapshots
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On 10/1/07, Tim Ellison wrote:
> Tim Ellison wrote:
> > ASF infra have pointed out that we are retaining far too many snapshot
> > builds [1].
> >
> > I think we only need to have the most recent three snapshot builds for
> > each platform.  The snapshots page [2] is way too long too -- why do we
> > need all these?
> >

I think we need keep snapshots for 2 week (5-6 snapshots) and IMHO all
interim testing results between 2 milestones. I think it worth to keep
them. The testing results also require noticeable amount of disk space
and we should improve suite reports to minimize reports size.

> > Unless there are any objections I'll go and delete the old ones.
>
> I realize that it is only 24hrs over a weekend since the call for
> objections, but I believe we need to be good ASF citizens, so I'm going
> to go ahead and delete a number of old snapshots to free up space on
> people.apache.org.
>
> I don't have rights to delete a number of them, so hopefully Stepan and
> Alexey can help me to trim down the retained builds.
>

Done.

Thanks,
Stepan.

> I looked at Mikhail's snapshot download page, and it will regenerate to
> reflect the missing snapshots next time the script runs.  BTW it would
> be good if we had these scripts and templates checked into SVN and part
> of the site code rather than in home directories.
>
> Regards,
> Tim