[ sigh; now I sent it unfinished ]
> On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:31 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 13, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> [sigh; sent unfinished]
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>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:19 AM Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hey all,
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>>> Not sure who is keeping an eye on the buildbot config, but Infra has been looking at the buildmaster and found that we (svn) have about 14G of nightlies laying around since 2015 (!!)
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>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/index.html
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/dist/
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>> It seems that we likely only need (say) one week's worth of nightlies (each is about 50M). What is the appropriate number?
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>> Is there a buildbot config option that is missing, that is avoiding a purge of these files? Or does something "behind the scenes" need to take responsibility?
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>> I believe Infra is likely to start *enforcing* some duration and overall disk usage constraints. This likely won't impact us, as long as we purge old builds according to our desired retention. So I think the more important concern for our community is the question of "how many nightlies do we want to retain?" ... I suspect whatever answer will be fine, but finding an accepted consensus would be helpful.
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>> I'll lead with this stake-in-the-ground:
>> ** retain one week of nightly builds
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> +1 a week seems reasonable
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> Do we only make a new nightly if the /trunk HEAD has advanced since the last one? If so, then are you suggesting we keep the last 7 nightlies?
Did you happen to check if we even have a current nightly? ISTR several months ago C-Mike had a question about building the tarball so he could try out the Python 3 bindings where someone pointed out we post nightlies and he could use that ... but then it turned out that the process had not been working for a few years.
Maybe I mis-remember or maybe it was fixed. But it could be that none of them have any value (they are all old) and we are not even making these anymore.
Mark
Received on 2020-07-13 13:35:05 CEST