[build] Retaining too many snapshots

[Tim Ellison <t....@gmail.com>]

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?

Unless there are any objections I'll go and delete the old ones.

[1]
http://people.apache.org/builds/harmony/snapshots/

[2]
http://people.apache.org/~mloenko/snapshot_testing/script/snapshots_summary.html

Regards,
Tim

Re: [build] Retaining too many snapshots

[Stepan Mishura <st...@gmail.com>]

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

Re: [build] Retaining too many snapshots

[Alexei Zakharov <al...@gmail.com>]

I have no objections. However, if we are limited in space we could
probably reduce our snapshot frequency to say once or twice a week.
Since we do not not always respond to regressions promptly - here I
mostly mean some non-integration test suites like tomcat tests or
struts - sometimes it is useful to have a snapshot that was built one
or two weeks ago.

BTW, how do other Apache projects solve this?

Regards,
Alexei

2007/10/1, Tim Ellison <t....@gmail.com>:
> 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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

Re: [build] Retaining too many snapshots

[Tim Ellison <t....@gmail.com>]

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?
> 
> 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.

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