Re: [Boost-testing] [EXTERNAL] Re: Purge policy for old test results

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] [EXTERNAL] Re: Purge policy for old test results
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-20 15:40:55

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
> On Jan 20, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>
> > > 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.
>

Which is what was set up previously and is no longer working. So if we have
a script at hand we can ask anyone to run it.

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