From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234C0138247 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0C84E0830; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B3EFE077A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1977233F2CB for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.584 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.584 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.581, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XiJY2kPx6CGe for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35CF933F35F for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vkb8n-0000PY-OJ for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:58:29 +0100 Received: from ppp118-209-197-177.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net ([118.209.197.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:58:29 +0100 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-197-177.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:58:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: cleaning away old news items Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:58:17 +1100 Message-ID: References: <52920E9F.3080305@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-197-177.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: <52920E9F.3080305@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: a2fcd2ad-29cf-47a1-be51-98e72f54fa66 X-Archives-Hash: 05a8ccbcb49dfbc86c43e40cb65b1c49 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