The records in the notification
collection do not need to stick around forever. It'd be good to have a paster command to clean up old ones, and documentation about setting up a cron job for it. Even better if we can think of a smart way to handle it automatically within allura, so a cron job wouldn't be necessary. Here's the basic query:
db.notification.remove({pubdate:{$lt: new Date(Date.now() - 1000*60*60*24*31*2)}})