I am working at a 500 SW developer shop as a SCM Tool specialist. Our products are under supervision from legal standards and authorities (very much like the medical industry with FDA). Within the SCM tool we store source code, built items and product documentation.
The problem at hand is that we are coming up against a limit to how much data we can host, as we currently do not have an active retention policy, and I am asked to come up with one.
It would be interesting to learn of how other businesses are dealing with the deletion of CI's (that are between baselines). Best practices?
Stories from our kind of business is a bonus, but any feedback is most welcome too.
The problem might only exist for certain SCM tools, all depending on how CI's are stored, but it is certainly a problem for us.
