[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42712: Enhance wp revisions to keep with expiration date for the revisions

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#42712: Enhance wp revisions to keep with expiration date for the revisions
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 Reporter:  colomet          |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Revisions        |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 > The age of a revision is much more important than it's number, when
 deciding if it could be automatically deleted.

 That's very subjective, personally I might want at least the last 5
 revisions of any given post, for example, when I find out that the post
 was modified after I published it.
 Others might not care about revisions before publishing, but revisions
 after publishing is super important.
 And then this use-case, I don't care about backups/revisions older than 1
 month, just purge them then.

 > The functionality may be seen as plugin material, but core should
 provide automatic deletion also on basis of the age.

 I actually feel like this would be great as a plugin first, even if it
 only ends up as a POC.
 I don't think revision purging should've ever been part of core - and I
 say that as the author of a plugin (Revision Control) which I wish I never
 wrote :)

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