Request for new features: 'Keep Forever Condition' and 'Action of Unkeep Forever, Then Delete After N Days'

[nurgul212]

What feature do you want to see added?

Feature Request

We propose adding the Keep Forever Condition and Action of Unkeep Forever (or Ignore Keep Forever) options to the plugin's functionality.

Functionality

This new feature would allow users to:

1. Apply a Keep Forever condition to certain builds
2. Implement an action of Unkeep Forever or Ignore Keep Forever after a specified number of days, then delete builds after a set period (N days)

Question to the Maintainer:

• Would you be open to accepting and supporting this proposed feature if we were to develop and submit a pull request with the implementation?

Thank you!!!

Upstream changes

n/a

[damianszczepanik]

Keep Forever is rather action, not condition. Or maybe Keep build forever so this is clear if the action refers to the build, artifact or log. Prepare PR for this, should be quite easy. Then check if https://github.com/jenkinsci/build-history-manager-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/pl/damianszczepanik/jenkins/buildhistorymanager/model/actions/DeleteBuildAction.java#L24 works as expected

[damianszczepanik]

Second looks like the opposite for the first one

[nurgul212]

It seems that there was a bit confusion in my previous comment. Let me clarify that we try to find a way to deal with runs that marked as Keep Forever. So we intend to propose an action like Ignore Keep forever after a specified number of days, then delete builds after a set period (N days).

[damianszczepanik]

Builds marked as Keep forever cannot be deleted. You need to first uncheck this flag and then delete

[nurgul212]

Right. We want to add a new feature called Ignore or Uncheck Keep Forever as an action. This feature would automatically remove the Keep Forever tag from the builds that have it, and then delete those builds after a specific number of days .

[damianszczepanik]

Then I would probably add new flag like 'forceDelete' to https://github.com/jenkinsci/build-history-manager-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/pl/damianszczepanik/jenkins/buildhistorymanager/model/actions/DeleteBuildAction.java instead of creating separate action. When the flag is selected then build toogle keep flag before deletion is invoked