On Jan 20, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco@sandia.gov>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There’s a lot of very dated test results on both develop and master
> >> results pages.  Could we get some kind of purge (or ignore) policy so that
> >> only results generated in the last, say, 15 days get displayed and older
> >> results are removed (or ignored).  This would, at a minimum, improve
> >> readability.
> >
> >
> > It was my understanding that there was already a periodic process that
> > cleans out the old results. I don't remember the schedule though.
>
> AFAIK, the automatic process has not worked for a long time. I've been
> manually cleaning out the stale results whenever they irritate me.
>
> It would be great if we could handle this automatically. 15 days
> sounds about right to me.
>
> If someone can provide a script to do the cleanup I can set up a job to do the cleanup.
>
> Note, send the script privately, i.e. email. As it could contain the magic FTP URL.

To me, the best solution is to nicely ask our cowic host to run a cron job on the ftp server to purge develop and master results that are more than 15 days old.  That would seem to be simplest if it could be achieved.