From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 08:41:36 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 D7F0C1065675 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:41:36 +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 6F5FB8FC17 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:41:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 22649 invoked by uid 399); 9 Jan 2009 08:14:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 9 Jan 2009 08:14:55 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:14:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Manolis Kiagias , murray@stokely.org In-Reply-To: <49663DFE.4040305@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <49663DFE.4040305@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xD5B2F0FB Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD doc list Subject: Re: [Fwd: 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 08:41:37 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection