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try to address @lavamind's comment in team#40516

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policy/tpa-rfc-14-gitlab-artifacts.md

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@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ produced by GitLab CI jobs. By default, GitLab keeps artifacts to 30 
days (~four weeks), but we will lower this to 14 days (two weeks).



Latest artifacts for all pipelines are kept indefinitely regardless of

this change. Artifacts marked "keep" will also still be kept.

this change. Artifacts marked `Keep` on a job page will also still be

kept.



# Why
@@ -41,6 +42,12 @@ in your `.gitlab-ci.yml` file. 
This will only affect new jobs. Artifacts of jobs created before the

change will expire after 30 days, as before.



Note that you are also encouraged to set a *lower* setting for

artifacts that do not need to be kept. For example, if you only keep

artifacts for a deployment job, it's perfectly fine to use:



    expire_in: 1 hour



[artifacts:expire_in]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/help/ci/yaml/index.md#artifactsexpire_in

[default artifacts expiration]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/help/user/admin_area/settings/continuous_integration.md#default-artifacts-expiration