> On May 16, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Jesse Glick <jgl...@cloudbees.com> wrote: > > I am not actually sure whether the collection scheme was > even implemented, or if so, whether this is custom tooling or some > stock feature of Artifactory. Daniel could speak to that.
No such feature I’m aware of. There’s configurable snapshot retention but not for releases because of that Maven philosophy :-) And we’ve not needed the feature for snapshots since we don’t use those all that often. That said, Artifactory has a mostly nice API, and also tracks # of downloads and date of last download of any given artifact, so we can rather easily implement GC taking that into account — the simplest one, just nuking whatever is >N days old and has never been downloaded, might be pretty safe and very effective, if my expectation that most incrementals builds will never be downloaded is correct. > Of course > this can already happen quite easily with upstream release versions > marked `-alpha` or `-beta`, or in cases where the upstream plugin is > excluded from the UC. The best solution is for the UC generation code > to actually perform a consistency check before publishing > anything—that seems like the very least we could do to prevent > accidents. We’ve already had that when plugins were blacklisted for security reasons, and forgot to check its dependencies. Not to mention unsatisfiable dependencies on tiered update sites (a dependency needs a newer core than the current tier), etc. It should be noted however that the runtime of update center generation is very easy to increase by orders of magnitude unless implemented carefully, so a real solution ensuring consistency of the created JSON (in a manner not just failing the build if inconsistent) probably requires something approaching a rewrite. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/A736FF8C-E8CB-42C4-9E39-905FD3299851%40beckweb.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
