On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 7:02 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 12:53:52AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > > Logs can accidentally contain sensitive data, and it's just plain faster > > > to work with them when there's less. I propose we set this to something > > > like six months by default. > > > > I don't think we should be destroying data by default. There should be no > > expiry by default. > > "Destroying data" seems a bit dramatic. We clean up temp files and so on all > the time. And the logs, of course, get trimmed if disk space is tight, so > there's already that. Keeping data forever just because isn't necessarily > inherently better. At $formeremployer, we had a policy of not keeping > anything longer than a year unless mandated to for regulatory reasons.
There are religious wars about this over in the source control world. To some, the history is more important than the current state of the system. Convincing some advocates of this, that the history itself is also a program that is amenable to editing and modification, is sometimes quite an adventure. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
