Is there any value or harm in removing archived or renamed repos? #4612
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If I submit a PR to remove an archived repo from projects.csv, will the historic data persist? If I submit a PR to rename a repo, same question - does this help token burn? |
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There's a benefit around less token/storage usage. There are some drawbacks to removing archived repos. Scores may still change even if the repository is archived, for example if new vulns are discovered, Scorecard changes its scoring, adds new analyses, or the repo gets unarchived (unlikely).
Yep and yep
This case is slightly trickier. If we analyze a repo using the old name, GitHub's redirection will usually let the analysis still work. We just store it under the old name instead of the new. So if a repo gets renamed, the results for the old name would stop and they would just show up under the new name. |
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There's a benefit around less token/storage usage. There are some drawbacks to removing archived repos. Scores may still change even if the repository is archived, for example if new vulns are discovered, Scorecard changes its scoring, adds new analyses, or the repo gets unarchived (unlikely).
Yep and yep
This case is slightly trickier. If we analyze a repo using the old name, GitHub's redirection will usually l…