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On 10/26/19 9:49 PM, Doug Bell wrote: > Okay, the general vibe I got from the responses is: > > * Report metadata isn't useful enough without the report text > * Data for old distributions matters for the people maintaining systems > that use them > > I think the best path forward might be to only do these things: > > 1. Archive the full report text for reports older than 5 years > 2. Keep only the full report text in the database for 5 years > 3. Keep metadata and statistics in the database forever > > Then we can build a site that can read those old reports from the > archive files. Since the most common use-case for a visitor (and correct > me if I'm wrong) is to go look up the reports for a specific > distribution on a specific Perl/platform, no functionality is lost. With > development we can even make some filtering / searching of the archived > reports possible. > > At the moment, keeping metadata forever should not be a huge issue: If I > fix the metadata to remove some duplicate data and normalize it a bit > better, I can even make it smaller. > > The full data retention policy then becomes the following decision tree: > > * Reports (full report data) > * Reports submitted >5 years ago > * Release on CPAN > - Report archived > * Release not on CPAN > - Report archived > * Reports submitted <5 years ago > * Release on CPAN > + Report available > * Release not on CPAN > + Report available > * Metadata (release, Perl version, Perl architecture, OS name/version, > test reporter, date/time, pass/fail status) > * Reports submitted >5 years ago > * Release on CPAN > + Metadata available > * Release not on CPAN > + Metadata available > * Reports submitted <5 years ago > * Release on CPAN > + Metadata available > * Release not on CPAN > + Metadata available > * Statistics (release, pass/fail count) > * Reports submitted >5 years ago > * Release on CPAN > + Statistics available > * Release not on CPAN > + Statistics available > * Reports submitted <5 years ago > * Release on CPAN > + Statistics available > * Release not on CPAN > + Statistics available > > I'll start planning out the scripts needed to achieve this, and when I'm > ready to do something, I'll make an announcement and give some time for > additional comments. > > Thanks, > > > Doug Bell > doug@preaction.me <mailto:doug@preaction.me> > > Doug, thanks for thinking this through. My own opinion: you could s/5/3/g above and still meet 99% of our needs. Thanks. jimkThread Previous | Thread Next