From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:13:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAr7Pr8CCPtSG5XQTgwcmmy2HK9UGiLACXCY+6smmnukK0S_bw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Problem:
New stages have numerous news items listed that are likely not relevant,
but are shown due to limitations in the filtering in NEWS items. E.g. on a
recent stage3:
nspawntest / # eselect news list
News items:
[1] N 2013-09-27 Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs
[2] N 2014-06-15 GCC 4.8.3 defaults to -fstack-protector
[3] N 2014-10-26 GCC 4.7 Introduced the New C++11 ABI
[4] N 2015-02-02 New portage plug-in sync system
[5] N 2015-07-25 Python 3.4 enabled by default
[6] N 2015-08-13 OpenSSH 7.0 disables ssh-dss keys by default
[7] N 2015-10-22 GCC 5 Defaults to the New C++11 ABI
[8] N 2016-06-19 L10N USE_EXPAND variable replacing LINGUAS
[9] N 2017-11-30 New 17.0 profiles in the Gentoo repository
Many of these are always displayed. For example:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes.en.txt
has "Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage" and will be displayed on
nearly every Gentoo machine. While relevant in 2015; I'm skeptical that its
relevant today. I am also considering explicit changes in the filtering
directives to resolve this in the future.
Glep42 states:
---
News Item Removal
News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main tree)
when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a future
news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the method
used for updates entries.
---
I suggest we delete all entries prior to 2016. Git keeps history forever,
so folks can gander at the old entries on gitweb.gentoo.org:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/
-A
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-03 0:13 Alec Warner [this message]
2018-01-03 0:17 ` [gentoo-dev] Deleting old news items Mikle Kolyada
2018-01-03 1:14 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2018-01-03 10:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2018-01-03 10:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2018-01-03 11:00 ` kuzetsa
2018-01-03 11:07 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-01-03 11:22 ` kuzetsa
2018-01-03 11:23 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-03 13:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2018-01-03 14:13 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-03 14:18 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-03 15:16 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 1:20 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 3:01 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 10:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-01-05 14:01 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 21:16 ` William Hubbs
2018-01-05 21:28 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2018-01-05 22:09 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-05 22:40 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 22:47 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-05 22:53 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-05 23:55 ` Michał Górny
2018-01-06 1:59 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-06 8:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2018-01-06 10:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-01-06 13:18 ` kuzetsa
2018-01-06 16:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2018-01-06 18:13 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-06 19:51 ` Anders Thomson
2018-01-06 20:30 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-06 22:11 ` Anders Thomson
2018-01-06 22:13 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-01-07 18:50 ` Denis Lisov
2018-01-05 9:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2018-01-05 14:07 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 10:15 ` nado
2018-01-05 14:01 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 14:08 ` Alec Warner
2018-01-05 15:23 ` Ulrich Mueller
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