Before collection artifacts can be removed, all repository versions that the collection is in must be removed. This means removing the entire repository history for every repo that has every contained a specific collection version. To make this step of the deletion process faster, we will ensure that all ansible repositories only retain the latest version by setting retained_versions=1.

• Create a migration to retained_versions=1 on all existing ansible repositories.
• Enforce that all new ansible repositories have retained_versions=1 using a post create signal.