[QGIS-Developer] QGIS webserver size vs publishing old docs

[DelazJ]

Hi all (and sorry for the cross-post)

Richard has raised the issue a couple of times with no specific
feedback/decision but I think now we NEED to go forward : there is not
enough space on our servers to store everything we want to share.
Yesterday, I updated the docs infrastructure to serve translated versions
of the 3.28 documentation but they are not published this morning, probably
because of lack of space to get them pasted.

# du -hs *
255M    doc-test
579M    QGIS-Documentation
7.2G    QGIS-Documentation-2.14
6.3G    QGIS-Documentation-2.18
7.7G    QGIS-Documentation-2.8
12G     QGIS-Documentation-3.10
11G     QGIS-Documentation-3.16
9.4G    QGIS-Documentation-3.22
579M    QGIS-Documentation-3.28
8.0G    QGIS-Documentation-3.4
31G     QGIS-tests
16G     QGIS-Website

An option could be to rent a bigger  webserver but a few
questions/suggestions so far (I'm only speaking for the docs as I don't
know what is behind other folders):
- Do we need to serve all these versions? FYI we recently silently removed
and redirected <2.8 docs (and nobody complained) so we could probably be
more "aggressive"
- It could be nice to define some strategy on this area: e.g. we keep
publishing master, current LTR, previous LTR and any older URL is
redirected to current LTR --> meaning that today we would be serving only
testing in English, 3.28 and 3.22 in English + translations. OR one more
older LTR (ie 3.16)?

PS: this issue somehow also affects the PyQGIS documentation repo [0], due
to github-pages size limits

Regards,
Harrissou

[0] https://github.com/qgis/pyqgis/issues/104#issuecomment-1354338491
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