Hi,

I have worked on many projects but I haven't had much chance to do ruleset skimming. Skimming is a process to pick up the highest version of rule instances and put into a new version. Large application has many versions and therefore, many overrode instances and withdrawn instances. The more rule instances system has, the harder developer looks into the application.

Question 1. Isn't it pretty much always best practice to remove lower instances to have only the highest instances so we can keep application the smallest size and simplest? Of course there is benefit to have old version to look or go back to at some point, but if we don't care old version but only the latest one is cared?

Question 2. If so, I would create only MyApp:01-01-01 at the end of development - but skimming to major version makes MyApp:02-01-01 and the lower version remains. The purpose is to reduce numbers, so I want to delete old ones from system. In that case, what is the best approach? I tried to use "Delete ruleset" in refactoring tool but it gives me a bunch of errors in the middle:

"2017-08-31 09:14:04,047 [http-nio-8082-exec-9] [TABTHREAD1] [ ] [ MyApp:02.01] ( internal.mgmt.Executable) ERROR localhost| Proprietary information hidden steve - Execution denied for class: Rule-Obj-Activity (activity: pyDeleteDocumentPg)"

So I guess delete is not a good approach. Should I do differently? What is the simplest approach to keep the highest rule instances in a system as MyApp:01-01-01.

Thanks,