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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: cleaning away old news items
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:44:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=6-zfGSCpN36SLKmU7nNC2tke94_d84mEGg8gBgvs49g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52920E9F.3080305@gentoo.org>

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
> when doing a fresh installation I noticed that during I get to see many
> old news items. There used to be a problem with Portage so no news items
> could  be removed. I think that has now been fixed for years so we
> should be able to do this without problems. How about we start by
> cleaning away everything from for example before 2011? Alternatively to
> total removal if we want keep them for historical purposes, we could add
> conditions that make them impossible to show to anyone.

++

If anything does have lasting value by all means move it to the
handbook/docs.  Likewise we could have a webpage of archived news for
anybody doing an upgrade of a 3-year-old system or something.  News is
going to be the least of their problems though.

A year seems like a reasonable timeframe for retiring old news - that
is a year from hitting stable, not ~arch (if applicable to stable).

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-24 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-24 14:35 [gentoo-dev] RFC: cleaning away old news items Petteri Räty
2013-11-24 14:44 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2013-11-24 14:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka

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