Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Retention time for SimRel releases

[Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This is a separate discussion, but please open a Bugzilla issue so we
can help you ease the pain dealing with composite repos.

Regards,

Fred

On 19.11.21 11:00, Christian Dietrich wrote:
> we right now have a script that maintains the composite based on what is
> there
> on downloads. so it would find stuff on archives
> maintaining the composites with scripts on jenkins
> is the biggest pain i can imagine
> 
> Am 19.11.21 um 10:57 schrieb Aleksandar Kurtakov:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:46 AM Christian Dietrich
>> <christian.dietrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>     i would like to see better support to maintain e.g. composite
>>     updates sites for that.
>>     but with 2 releases i think this is the death to composite updates
>>     sites for
>>     multiples releases in general as there is not much to find.
>>
>> I don't see the relationship here. One can have a composite site with
>> as many versions as they want on downloads pointing to 2 versions from
>> downloads and rest from archive and even have that transparent thanks
>> to redirects (aka no change in the composite site when archiving). The
>> discussion here is what is on downloads (aka mirrored).
>>  
>>
>>
>>     Am 19.11.21 um 10:43 schrieb Aleksandar Kurtakov:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:37 AM Aleksandar Kurtakov
>>>     <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 7:43 PM Frederic Gurr
>>>         <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi,
>>>
>>>             On https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/78
>>>             ("Download.e.o size too big for mirrors"), Aleksandar
>>>             Kurtakov pointed
>>>             out, that a big chunk of disk space is taken by the
>>>             content of the
>>>             https://download.eclipse.org/releases folder.
>>>
>>>             It currently contains all SimRel releases from "Europa"
>>>             to 2021-12
>>>             taking up ~100GB. As a first step the mirrors exclude
>>>             list has been
>>>             modified so all releases up to "Mars" are not mirrored.
>>>
>>>             I'm planning to move all releases from "Europa" to 2019-12 to
>>>             archive.eclipse.org <http://archive.eclipse.org> next
>>>             week. So only the last 8 releases will stay on
>>>             download.eclipse.org <http://download.eclipse.org>. I
>>>             will add the task to move old releases to
>>>             archive.eclipse.org <http://archive.eclipse.org> to the
>>>             release check list
>>>             https://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Release_Checklist.
>>>
>>>             Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>>>
>>>
>>>         In https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/78
>>>         it's written "download.e.o must only contain the last 2
>>>         releases. Older releases must be moved to archives". IMHO it
>>>         would be good if this is either enforced that way for
>>>         everything(!) or changed to some other number (for which
>>>         there is agreement it makes sense) and again enforced.
>>>
>>>
>>>     IMHO, such a check should be part of release or progress reviews
>>>     and actions required from projects. Having smth happening
>>>     regularly, being well defined and actionable is what we should
>>>     aim for rather than the current "exclude" lists and generally
>>>     costing time to people involved in many projects to just go and
>>>     check if any of the dozens projects involved in is guilty.
>>>      
>>>
>>>          
>>>
>>>
>>>             Regards,
>>>
>>>             Fred
>>>
>>>             -- 
>>>             Frederic Gurr
>>>             Release Engineer | Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>         Aleksandar Kurtakov
>>>         Red Hat Eclipse Team
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Aleksandar Kurtakov
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> Abdelghani El-Kacimi, Wolfgang Neuhaus, Franz-Josef Schuermann
> Aufsichtsrat/Supervisory Board: Michael Neuhaus (Vors./chairman), Harald
> Goertz, Eric Swehla
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> (Germany)
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