On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 4:00 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> W dniu czw, 04.01.2018 o godzinie 20∶20 -0500, użytkownik Alec Warner > napisał: > > The attached patch proposes a new news item format (2.1). > > > > In format 2.1, the Expires: header is mandatory. > > > > PMs can detect whether a given news item is "expired" by comparing the > > current date in UTC to the expired date. > > Expired news items should not be shown to users. > > > > Once this is accepted and implemented, we can go back and bump the > existing > > news items to format 2.1 and add the new mandatory header. > > > > Old news implementations should ignore the "Expires" header (as they > ignore > > any unspecified header.) > > What will the relevant policy be, i.e. what value should we be putting > there? > My straw man is 1-3 years from date of posting. Like in theory authors wouldn't even write it in and a pre-commit hook would just inject the header into the message at commit-time. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > >
