On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 15:11:27 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:29:30AM +0930, Alex Murray wrote: >> On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 13:38:38 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: >> >> > The Ubuntu Error Tracker receives crash reports from all releases of >> > Ubuntu which are not out of standard support. These crash reports are >> > then aggregated into buckets where some meta-information (package >> > version and release of Ubuntu) about those crash reports is collected. >> > The crash data in the Ubuntu Error Tracker is kept until the release >> > reaches its end of standard support, however not all the data from each >> > individual crash gets scrubbed and there is still some detailed >> > information for crashes from releases as old as Ubuntu 12.04. >> > >> > I plan on changing this policy so that all the information from >> > individual crash reports (basically what is in the .crash file) is >> > removed when the release reaches its end of standard support. That would >> > mean that all the information for crashes from Ubuntu 21.10 would be >> > removed in July of 2022 and for Ubuntu 18.04 it would be removed in >> > April of 2023. Keeping in mind that a crash bucket would still indicate >> > that old release and package version were affected are there any >> > objections to this change in data retention? >> >> We are now supporting LTS releases for 5 additional years via ESM and so >> from the security team's perspective 16.04 will be supported* until 2026 >> and 18.04 until 2028. I can imagine it would be useful to still have >> error reports retained and collected for these releases during this ESM >> period to help identify any possible regressions introduced via ESM >> security updates. >> >> So as a general rule, for the LTS releases can we please retain and >> support them in the Ubuntu Error Tracker for 10 years? > > I don't think having an individual crash report from 2016 would be > useful in 2021, let alone in 2026. How would the security team feel > about keeping the individual crashes for a maximum of 5 years?
Oh that is a good point - indeed, 5 years for the individual crash reports themselves sounds quite sufficient. > > -- > Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel