Automatically delete old releases

[schmidt-sebastian]

What's the problem this feature will solve?
We are hitting the size limit on our project. We are uploading nightly releases to PyPi for customer to install and validate. We would like a way to automatically delete old releases.

Describe the solution you'd like
We would like one of two solutions:

1. The ability to set a retention policy for our project. Older releases should be automatically purged.
2. The ability to delete releases programmatically (i.e. via Curl). Right now, deleting a release via the UI requires two clicks and an explicit confirmation.

[kairoaraujo]

A question as a new contributor: Could it be implemented in the JSON API? 🤔

[alkino]

We are also interested by this feature for exactly the same reason.

The first way seems easier for us.

It could be:

• No more than X release in the same time
• No release older than X days / months / years

Maybe we can imagine a new tick option: "This release is a nightly", and so it enables such options (to protect users to remove not-nightly releases).

Regards

[octachrome]

And we are also interested for the same reason.

Today it is possible although not simple to automate this, e.g. https://github.com/arcivanov/pypi-cleanup. But that will stop working at the end of 2023, when all PyPI accounts will require 2-factor authentication. 2FA cannot easily be automated.

Hopefully the REST API to delete releases will be available before 2FA becomes mandatory: #12934

[artanokhov]

A large number of projects publish their nightly packages on daily basis that need to be rotated.
Before forcing 2FA, this could be done using the 'requests' + any page parsing modules (e.g. https://github.com/arcivanov/pypi-cleanup). Now we can't proceed with automation.