Launchpad Needs a Data Preservation and Removal Policy

[Joey Stanford]

The Launchpad team should document and publish it's policy on preserving data. This should also include when such data can be removed.

Ideas to be included:

1) General data preservation
2) General data removal
3) Removal of user accounts
4) Removal of projects/products
5) Removal of bugs, questions, specs, branches, Translations
6) Removal of team mailing lists

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

mpt found some related bugs for us to consider:

Related bugs:
* "Can't delete a project you created"
    <https://launchpad.net/bugs/38349>
* "Marking projects 'abandoned'"
    <https://launchpad.net/bugs/75604>
* "Automatically warn about, then delete, unused projects"
    <https://launchpad.net/bugs/106501>
* "Add project merging functionality"
    <https://launchpad.net/bugs/110237>

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

A couple more: bug 34540, bug 2773, bug 50525, bug 29177, bug 119420

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

I've created an incomplete draft for Canonical discussion here:

https://launchpad.canonical.com/JoeyStanford/dataretention

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Good progress. Under review.

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Reviewed by Steve with hefty changes. This now lives at https://launchpad.canonical.com/JoeyStanford/privacyanddataretention

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

I've received a highly edited draft back from legal along with a general statement and have posted those to the wiki page we are using to build this document.

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/62702

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Final draft under review

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Note, team mailing lists have been removed since their deployment has slipped. Text to add in the future is on the wiki page.

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

approved by kiko for release

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

This has been deployed to https://help.launchpad.net/Legal