Hello there! Now, of course I've heard the stories about the infinite shelf life of Rodinal - but it turns out, it doesn't apply to all chemistry that is sold as Rodinal/R09/such substitutes. In particular I've heard about Fomadon R09 getting bad after just one, two years (I have a bottle of that one opened about a year ago... will have to test it but I'm not exceedingly hopeful about it). Are you familiar with any brands of Rodinal that actually have that famous long shelf life? Adox seems promising to me, but if you have any other ideas, do let me know
There is anecdotal evidence, where about 20 years after the 2nd war had finished they were in the process of restoring/rebuilding the German city of Dresden and when excavating the site of a photographers shop, an opened bottle of AGFA Rodinal was found and when tested it was still as effective as new. Now I don't know if this is true, as I said it was anecdotal, but have no reason to disbelieve it.
I have in the past used the Agfa version and because of the longevity and quite weak dilutions I used in those days it took me 2 years to finish it and there was no degradation. be mindful that as it gets older like most developers they go brown but apparently Rodinal does not loose it's effectiveness.
I have bought a 500cc bottle of the ADOX version which is publicised as exactly the old same old Rodinal formula. I have yet to use any of it, but when I open the bottle it will be decanted into 5 x 100cc brown glass bottles with an airtight screw cap. As I don't do as much B&W work now as I used to, that should last me many years, so why not do as I do and split it into 5 x 100cc bottles you will find this method works.
I use the same procedure with Ilford Multigrade developer. Being a miserly sort of person I buy the largest quantity of MG developer as I can which is 5 litres. I decant that into 10 x 500 cc bottles for storage. One of the bottles I then decant into 5 x 100cc glass bottles with neoprene seals. (I use the same for the Rodinal because anything else is not completely airtight) I bought the last 5 litres about 2 yrs ago and have about 1/2 left. When opened the colour of the contents is still the very pale champagne colour as when it was made. RA4 dev also gets the same treatment. Glass bottles with neoprene seals is the answer.