On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:29:30AM +0930, Alex Murray wrote: > On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 13:38:38 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > > > The Ubuntu Error Tracker receives crash reports from all releases of > > Ubuntu which are not out of standard support. These crash reports are > > then aggregated into buckets where some meta-information (package > > version and release of Ubuntu) about those crash reports is collected. > > The crash data in the Ubuntu Error Tracker is kept until the release > > reaches its end of standard support, however not all the data from each > > individual crash gets scrubbed and there is still some detailed > > information for crashes from releases as old as Ubuntu 12.04. > > > > I plan on changing this policy so that all the information from > > individual crash reports (basically what is in the .crash file) is > > removed when the release reaches its end of standard support. That would > > mean that all the information for crashes from Ubuntu 21.10 would be > > removed in July of 2022 and for Ubuntu 18.04 it would be removed in > > April of 2023. Keeping in mind that a crash bucket would still indicate > > that old release and package version were affected are there any > > objections to this change in data retention? > > We are now supporting LTS releases for 5 additional years via ESM and so > from the security team's perspective 16.04 will be supported* until 2026 > and 18.04 until 2028. I can imagine it would be useful to still have > error reports retained and collected for these releases during this ESM > period to help identify any possible regressions introduced via ESM > security updates. > > So as a general rule, for the LTS releases can we please retain and > support them in the Ubuntu Error Tracker for 10 years?
I don't think having an individual crash report from 2016 would be useful in 2021, let alone in 2026. How would the security team feel about keeping the individual crashes for a maximum of 5 years? -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
