[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: cleaning away old news items

[Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>]

On 25/11/2013 01:35, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>

Removal of no longer relevant or very old news items is specifically 
permitted by GLEP 42[1]. I did some targeted removals in the past, and 
it didn't cause any issues as you said. A wider-ranging cleanup is 
definitely a good idea.
Archiving them is no problem, since they will always still be in git 
history.

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html#news-item-removal