Log Data Retention

[Tim Flink]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:20:03 -0600
Tim Flink <tflink at redhat.com> wrote:

I wonder if this ends up being the email list equivalent of talking to
myself :)

It just seemed like a cleaner way to separate my answers from the
questions

<snip>
> The questions raised so far are:
> 
> 1. How long is long enough to keep log and execution data?

6-12 months should be more than enough but it might be worth trying
to keep a release-lifetime of logs (~18 months, including pre-release)

> 2. Should be be cleaning up anything that references builds/artifacts 
> (like links in resultsdb) before we delete them?

Ideally, yes but I don't think it's worth more than a day's effort
for one person if we have proper 404 processing on the machine hosting
the artifacts.

If it does become an issue in the future, it wouldn't be difficult to
go back and change dead links if we needed to.

> 3. Do we want to put resources into figuring out whether the result
> was a PASS or FAIL before deleting it?

No, it's not worth the effort - I'd rather just store more logs than
put much dev time into deciding which logs to delete

> 4. Should fesco be involved in this decision?

Either way - I suspect that they're not going to have much of an
opinion and it adds bureaucracy to the process but I suppose that the
decision would be a bit more "official" if we asked them.

Tim
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