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From:
Serguei Trouchelle
Date:
October 17, 2019 20:31
Subject:
Re: Data Retention Policies
Message ID:
5b5bacb9-d620-9562-2c43-797b2ffc04cc@cpan.org
On 2019-10-17 10:33, Doug Bell wrote:
> That said, timely data is more useful than untimely data. Do we need 
> reports submitted in 2006? Data for modules only available on BackPAN 
> isn't actionable, so do we need to keep that information?

As long as we have BackPAN, this information is useful, for one 
particular case.
Sometimes, you need to find when the module started to fail for some 
outdated Perl version. Often, this version is already removed from CPAN. 
This situation is really rare but I ran into it when dealing with old 
versions of Perl. And it was quite popular module.

> So, questions for those affected:
>
> * Do you look at text reports older than 5 years? 3 years? 1 year?

Usually, less than 1 year. But I'd like to have access to recent FAIL 
reports though. If distribution Acme-A was last tested on platform X 
with Perl 5.12.0 and failed, I'd like to have access to this particular 
information regardless of when the report was submitted. PASS report for 
DBI.pm on Perl 5.28 or 5.30 on i686-linux platform? No one really needs 
the contents of every (or any for that matter) report.

> * Are test summaries useful to you without the full text of the report?

The grade is useful even without the text. Full text for PASS reports is 
probably not really useful at all.

> * Are pass/fail counts older than 5 years useful to you? 3 years? 1 year?

Yes, especially for versions/platforms that are not being actively 
tested anymore.

-- 
S.T.

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