On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 7:02 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 12:53:52AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> > Logs can accidentally contain sensitive data, and it's just plain faster
> > to work with them when there's less. I propose we set this to something
> > like six months by default.
>
> I don't think we should be destroying data by default. There should be no
> expiry by default.
"Destroying data" seems a bit dramatic. We clean up temp files and so on all
the time. And the logs, of course, get trimmed if disk space is tight, so
there's already that. Keeping data forever just because isn't necessarily
inherently better. At $formeremployer, we had a policy of not keeping
anything longer than a year unless mandated to for regulatory reasons.
There are religious wars about this over in the source control world.
To some, the history is more important than the current state of the
system. Convincing some advocates of this, that the history itself is
also a program that is amenable to editing and modification, is
sometimes quite an adventure.