Filing this bug to track one of the action items discussed in the relops/taskcluster/ciduty meeting. A very important improvement that was discussed was making HW workers not expire from the worker explorer (have 1000 year expiration time, similar to how quarantine works). At the moment this is set to 24h after which the worker disappears from the worker-explorer. Why change it? As demonstrated in the meeting, ciduty are using a script to check for missing HW workers. All teams agreed that implementing this change would be an improvement, and thus we would rely on the data of when the last task was completed to find and troubleshoot problematic workers.

It looks like we can quite easily just redeclare the hardware workertypes to have 1000 year expirations. Will look into to doing that today.