On 01/03/2018 12:07 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Alec Warner wrote: > >> 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: > >> [...] > > We could add an "Expires:" header to the news item format, and the > package manager (or eselect news) could mask old items based on it.
Do we necessarily need to do even that? A package manager could have a feature to mask based on other heuristics without changing the format, e.g all messages from before X, presumably with a switch to show older. I'm thinking along the lines of only show those published within last 12 months by default, configurable by make.conf variable. -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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