[Fwd: Re: Would it be useful/appropriate to remove news about betas and RCs?]

[Doug Barton]

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."

Doug


On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:

> Relaying Murray's answer, as it only reached me I guess...

They certainly belong still in the rss feed and full newsflash page but we 
could be doing more intelligent filtering for the limited screen real 
estate on the main page. We could omit the rc and beta announcements on 
the main page once a release is out, or omit results older than n months 
even if they are among last k results for that feed.

Murray


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