From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 21:15:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3AB1065675 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D237F8FC1F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2810 invoked by uid 399); 9 Jan 2009 21:15:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 9 Jan 2009 21:15:53 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4967BE87.7060901@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:15:51 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <49663DFE.4040305@gmail.com> <2a7894eb0901090953r67bdeaf2te11bd5bc3c87d3f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0901090953r67bdeaf2te11bd5bc3c87d3f@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD doc list Subject: Re: Would it be useful/appropriate to remove news about betas and RCs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:15:54 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Doug Barton 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection