On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Petteri Räty <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
++ If anything does have lasting value by all means move it to the handbook/docs. Likewise we could have a webpage of archived news for anybody doing an upgrade of a 3-year-old system or something. News is going to be the least of their problems though. A year seems like a reasonable timeframe for retiring old news - that is a year from hitting stable, not ~arch (if applicable to stable). Rich
