Re: [Boost-testing] Clearing out stale test results?

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-28 10:25:50

Beman Dawes wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> For both trunk and release, can we start automatically clearing stale 
>>> test results after seven or so days?
>>
>> Theoretically, yes. Technically, someone would have to write some code 
>> to either delete files at the upload server location or to have the 
>> result processing ignore old results.
> 
> What are the tradeoffs for the two approaches?

Hm, making the result processing do it will likely be harder since it 
may take both Python and XSLT changes. While doing the standalone script 
can be done in Python alone, and deleting the files on the ftp server 
will reduce the FTP disk usage. Can't think of any other differences.

>> [[[ WARNING: Since this topic might lead to taking about the FTP 
>> server... Please refrain from posting the address to the server here. ]]]

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