I noticed some interesting changes for the Build Retention Policies in TFS2010 (Beta 1):
- possible differences between retention policy for triggered and manual builds vs private builds
You will be able to set another retention policy on private builds: builds that are run by the enabled Gated Check-in trigger.
- extra What to delete column
You will be able to specify more in detail what information must be deleted when the retention policy kicks in.
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Pieter,
Any idea why they changed the default “What to delete” from All to All- Testresults and where we can change this default ?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2182621
We do not want to trigger a program after build creation, but we do want to change the default. Because now our TFS database is growing very .. very fast !
Bart,
the decision to preserve the TestResults by default was taken due to the fact that “historic” Test Plans became “incomplete”. Test Management often requires to keep test results a bit longer than a few days …
The default “retention policy” setting in new build defintions cannot be changed. You could change the existing build definitions via the TFS API ;-(
Good luck!
Pieter.
Bart,
note that the latest TFS Power Tools release (August 2011) now also contains a “Test Attachment Cleaner”.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f
Pieter.