feat(admin): enable 30 day default retention for chat history & remove warning

[skeshive]

Related Issues

https://github.com/google-gemini/maintainers-gemini-cli/issues/1194

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request simplifies the chat history retention policy by establishing a default 30-day retention period and automatically enabling session cleanup. It removes the need for users to acknowledge a warning or manually enable this feature, integrating it seamlessly into the application's default behavior. The changes primarily involve updating configuration settings and removing UI elements and logic related to the old warning system.

Highlights

• Default Chat History Retention: Chat history will now be retained for a default period of 30 days, with session cleanup automatically enabled.
• Removal of Retention Warning: The previous warning mechanism and associated UI components for session retention have been removed, streamlining the user experience.

Changelog

• packages/cli/src/config/settings.ts
  • Removed the 'warningAcknowledged' property from the 'SessionRetentionSettings' interface.
• packages/cli/src/config/settingsSchema.ts
  • Updated the default value for 'Enable Session Cleanup' to 'true'.
  • Set the default 'Keep chat history' period to '30d'.
  • Removed the schema definition for 'warningAcknowledged'.
• packages/cli/src/ui/AppContainer.tsx
  • Removed the import for 'useSessionRetentionCheck'.
  • Deleted the 'handleAutoEnableRetention' callback and the 'useSessionRetentionCheck' hook invocation.
  • Removed references to 'shouldShowRetentionWarning' and 'sessionsToDeleteCount' from UI state calculations.
• packages/cli/src/ui/components/DialogManager.tsx
  • Removed the import for 'SessionRetentionWarningDialog'.
  • Deleted the 'handleKeep120Days' and 'handleKeep30Days' callbacks.
  • Removed the conditional rendering logic for 'SessionRetentionWarningDialog'.
• packages/cli/src/ui/components/SessionRetentionWarningDialog.test.tsx
  • Removed the test file for 'SessionRetentionWarningDialog'.
• packages/cli/src/ui/components/SessionRetentionWarningDialog.tsx
  • Removed the 'SessionRetentionWarningDialog' component file.
• packages/cli/src/ui/components/snapshots/SessionRetentionWarningDialog.test.tsx.snap
  • Removed the snapshot test file for 'SessionRetentionWarningDialog'.
• packages/cli/src/ui/contexts/UIStateContext.tsx
  • Removed 'shouldShowRetentionWarning' and 'sessionsToDeleteCount' properties from the 'UIState' interface.
• packages/cli/src/ui/hooks/useSessionRetentionCheck.test.ts
  • Removed the test file for 'useSessionRetentionCheck'.
• packages/cli/src/ui/hooks/useSessionRetentionCheck.ts
  • Removed the 'useSessionRetentionCheck' hook file.

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Code Review

This pull request successfully implements the feature to enable a 30-day default retention for chat history and removes the associated warning mechanism. The changes are consistent across the settings interface, schema, UI components, and related hooks and tests. The removal of the warningAcknowledged property and the SessionRetentionWarningDialog component, along with setting general.sessionRetention.enabled to true and general.sessionRetention.maxAge to '30d' by default, aligns perfectly with the stated objective. The code is clean and well-structured, with all deprecated components and logic being appropriately removed.

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