On 23 July 2018 at 08:45, Gavin McDonald <ga...@16degrees.com.au> wrote: > HI All, > > I'd like to ask a basic question. > > Is there any reason at all to keep the 'workspace' dirs of builds on the > jenkins slaves ?
Yes, if a test fails then the workspace may contain files and logs that are necessary to debug the failure. > If projects do not use the built in plugins to cleanup their workspaces, > INFRA has a script that will run periodically to do cleanups. > > My iniital thinking is that there is no reason at all to keep workspace > directories > and that a policy of 7 days would be plenty. See above. > And , in advance, I'd like to state that projects creating their own > storage area for jars > and other artifacts to quicken up their builds is not a valid reason. > > -- > --- > Gav...
