binutils snapshot builds

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Hi Mark,
>
>> What do people think is a good policy?
>> - Just keep one snapshot a day after a year.
>> - Only keep snapshots for 1, 2 or 3 years.
>> - Just throw money at it, disks are cheap.
>>    Just buy another 600G when it fills up?
>
> Given that any of these snapshots can be reproduced from the git repository
> I do not see any great benefit in maintaining them long term.  My feeling
> is that is they will loose their usefulness once an official release is
> made, or possibly after two releases.  So how about:
>
>   * Snapshots are retained for at least 1 year after their creation.
>
>   * After that they can be culled at the discretion of the overseers
>     (and without needing to consult with the binutils project) as and
>     when they wish.

I would add, probably doing the snapshots in a weekly basis would be
enough, like GCC does?