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[db-wg] Clean up unreferenced maintainers (after 90 days)

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Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Wed Nov 15 18:13:08 CET 2017

denis walker via db-wg wrote:
> Several years ago we did look at deleting not only individual objects or
> pairs, but whole clusters of objects (PERSON, ROLE, MNTNER, ORGANISATION
> (org-type: other), KEY-CERT) if non of these objects in a cluster were
> referenced by any operational objects. It is easy to build up a
> collection of objects now that will never be deleted, but which serve no
> useful purpose in the database.
> 
> Personally I think it is time to take a more serious look at cleaning
> out any data that has no reason to be there.

I would be in favour of seeing this done.  The less fossilized detritus
in the database, the better.

Nick

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