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On 01/03/2018 06:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> Problem: |
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>> New stages have numerous news items listed that are likely not |
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>> relevant, but are shown due to limitations in the filtering in NEWS |
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>> items. E.g. on a recent stage3: |
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>> [...] |
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> We could add an "Expires:" header to the news item format, and the |
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> package manager (or eselect news) could mask old items based on it. |
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> Ulrich |
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the storage footprint for news entries is cheap. |
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why not just improve the user-facing documentation: |
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if someone wants to hide "old" news, they opt-out. |
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It's much harder to opt-in to viewing deleted news. |
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