remove old video torrents

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Matt Domsch wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:46:20PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I'm all for pruning, lets have a plan for it though.  Anyone see any
> > reason not to have these up there?
> >
> > Should we come up with some test for what does and does not get removed?
>
> I agree.  Here's what I am going by:
>
> a) content that has reached the end of life. This includes:
>    1) pre-release content (Alpha, Beta, snapshots, ...) that have been
>       superceeded, and are thus no longer useful for testing.
>    2) EOL releases that we have moved to archive.fp.o
>        (I'm open to be swayed on this one...)
>
> b) content which has exceedingly limited seeders and downloaders, and
>    which has little prospect of increasing those numbers, and which is
>    > 1 year old.  The several-years-old videos fall into this
>    category, with 0-1 seeder, and no significant increase in downloads
>    in a while (by visual inspection, ~3000 downloads as far back as I
>    can remember).
>
> Content which is still considered "current" (e.g. spins of non-EOL
> releases) get to stay.
>
> We haven't traditionally hosted spins elsewhere, such as archive.fp.o
> or alt.fp.o, so nuking them removes the only method by which someone
> could obtain them.  Given we're OK on space right now, there's no good
> reason to remove spins even of EOL releases where the non-spins got
> archived.
>

This seems reasonable to me.  Anyone have issues?

	-Mike