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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> when doing a fresh installation I noticed that during I get to see many |
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> old news items. There used to be a problem with Portage so no news items |
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> could be removed. I think that has now been fixed for years so we |
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> should be able to do this without problems. How about we start by |
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> cleaning away everything from for example before 2011? Alternatively to |
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> total removal if we want keep them for historical purposes, we could add |
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> conditions that make them impossible to show to anyone. |
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If anything does have lasting value by all means move it to the |
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handbook/docs. Likewise we could have a webpage of archived news for |
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anybody doing an upgrade of a 3-year-old system or something. News is |
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going to be the least of their problems though. |
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A year seems like a reasonable timeframe for retiring old news - that |
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is a year from hitting stable, not ~arch (if applicable to stable). |
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Rich |
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