Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:15:51 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org> Cc: FreeBSD doc list <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Would it be useful/appropriate to remove news about betas and RCs? Message-ID: <4967BE87.7060901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0901090953r67bdeaf2te11bd5bc3c87d3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <49663DFE.4040305@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901090011050.1173@ync.qbhto.arg> <2a7894eb0901090953r67bdeaf2te11bd5bc3c87d3f@mail.gmail.com>
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Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> This is sort of along the lines I was thinking, especially about the front
>> page, and I think that keeping all of the news on the news flash page is
>> also a good idea.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest however that in the RSS feed that they are not valuable.
>> If I'm looking at the RSS feed as my source of news about FreeBSD it's not
>> really relevant to me that there were N betas/RCs prior to the release, I
>> just want to see the news about the release.
>>
>> I'm not suggesting that the information about betas and RCs is not valuable,
>> I just think we need to differentiate between "news" and "history."
>
> I've never seen items purged like this from an RSS feed. The
> chronological nature of RSS makes the older stuff just sort of sink
> down out of view as newer stuff takes precedence in your feed reader.
True, but most of the other RSS feeds I subscribe to have more volume,
which means the less relevant stuff goes away much faster than ours do.
> Removing some old items will just cause even older items to appear
> higher on the list which could also be irrelevant.
I would argue that anything would be more relevant than beta/RC
announcements after a release. :)
> Do you have an example RSS feed that does this kind of pruning in a
> good way?
I don't, but I'm more interested in what's right for us.
> Wouldn't this confuse some feed readers?
This question is one of the main reasons that I didn't Just Do It.
In any case, there does not seem to be any support for my proposal, so
in the immortal words of Emily Litella, "Never mind." :)
Doug
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