remove old video torrents

[Bill Nottingham]

Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) said: 
> > > 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?

Seems reasonable. Should we make this generic so it applies to older alpha/beta
trees on the ftp/http site as well?

Bill