On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:49 PM Frederic Gurr <
frederic.g...@eclipse-foundation.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are there any good reasons to keep milestone repos, release candidate
> repos and repos that were replaced with a respin around for an extended
> time (or forever)?
>
> @Jonah: A similar question could be asked for the retention time of EPP
> milestone and release candidates _repos_.
>
> This should not concern the EPP artifacts for milestones and release
> candidates on the download website. I think there are good reasons to
> keep the EPP packages around.
>
> E.g. the 2018-09 SimRel release contains seven p2 repos (M1, M2, M3,
> RC1, RC2, and two respins). Only the final release (the last respin) is
> relevant AFAICT. This would save 10-15GB disk space per release
> depending on the number of respins.
>
> I'd propose that all repos of a release (e.g. 2021-06) are kept until
> the next final release (e.g. 2021-09) has dropped. Everything except the
> final release repo (of 2021-06) will then be removed. This would set the
> retention time to roughly three months.
>
> WDYT?
>

+1. Keeping M* and RC* builds is pointless past GA.


>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
>
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