W dniu wto, 02.01.2018 o godzinie 19∶13 -0500, użytkownik Alec Warner napisał: > 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: >
For completeness, I should point out that I've seen one user complaining about old news items disappearing. While I support the motion, I think we should take some care to make sure that there is some 'replacement' documentation for the things announced by news items. In other words, it's a bad idea to remove news items when the available documentation explains the 'before' state and the news item is the only source of information of the 'after' state. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
