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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 00:10:13 Robert Collins wrote:
> Architecture , db sanity etc:
> 
> I have a few thoughts here:
>  - its great to delete stuff we don't need
>  - much of the stuff we have is only ours to look after; its really users
> data - the rest we can delete anytime we're happy that we won't need it
> (for debugging/legal reporting, whatever)
>  - it would be nice to have a broad pattern of behaviour/interactions
> for cleaning up stuff that belongs to our users; some way of balancing
> the resources they are using/the benefits they get/the overhead to us
> of maintaining it.
> 
> Some things are ridiculously cheap to keep lots of, others are really
> very expensive.
> 
> AIUI the big ones today are BranchRevision (An optimisation problem,
> we can address it transparently) and various rosetta tables.

I suspect the Soyuz publishing tables will be very close to those figures.