The manual runs are only down to 1150 days – having the cron job do a huge deletion from 1150 to 456 days during the first run should be avoided.

In T189091#4483509, @Nikerabbit wrote:

The manual runs are only down to 1150 days – having the cron job do a huge deletion from 1150 to 456 days during the first run should be avoided.

Yes. Plan to is do set of another runs before we down to significant lower numbers of drafts.

In T189091#4483591, @KartikMistry wrote:

Yes. Plan to is do set of another runs before we down to significant lower numbers of drafts.

Can you create tickets for those runs and add them to the "maintenance backlog" of the Language-2018-July-September board?

Change 486454 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; owner: KartikMistry):
[operations/puppet@production] WIP: Cron to run script to purge old CX drafts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/486454

Blocked on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216509

Change 486454 had a related patch set uploaded (by KartikMistry; owner: KartikMistry):
[operations/puppet@production] Cron to run script to purge old CX drafts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/486454

Script will run at every 15 days on 3rd and 15th of every month.

Change 486454 merged by Alexandros Kosiaris:
[operations/puppet@production] Cron to run script to purge old CX drafts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/486454

I'll close this after observing output on Wednesday ie 03rd April.

Verified first run output and it seems good. Purged 728 drafts.

In T189091#5081697, @KartikMistry wrote:

Verified first run output and it seems good. Purged 728 drafts.

@KartikMistry, can we mark the ticket as resolved then? or further checks are needed?