Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

I believe the policies for GitHub Actions artifacts and GitHub PR data retention
are different.  Max 90 days for GitHub Actions for public repos:

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/usage-limits-billing-and-administration#artifact-and-log-retention-policy


Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Rebecca Cran
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 7:20 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; mhaeuser@posteo.de; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms] Enable GitHub PR, protected branches, and 'push' label
> 
> On 3/17/23 8:08 AM, Marvin Häuser wrote:
> >> On 17. Mar 2023, at 14:44, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, this.  For active PRs this usually isn't much of a problem.  But
> >> try come back after a few months, or even a few years (see Rebecca
> >> trying to lookup context for a 2016 commit in the archives).
> > I also didn’t find anything in the GutHub docs regarding guarantees for archival. Disgusting.
> 
> There's a PR from npm cli from 2018 that still appears to have all data
> about it: https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/1
> 
> But, in other places there do seem to be concerns about data retention,
> for example
> https://github.com/tianocore-docs/edk2-VfrSpecification/actions is empty
> and almost certainly had a run in November 2020. I don't know if that's
> something we configured, or if it deletes history for GitHub Actions
> after a few years.
> 
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> Rebecca Cran
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