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
