On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:20 PM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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. > Brief amendment. In the case where the PM cannot parse the expires header; it should assume the item is not expired and display it (e.g. it should fail open.) Updated patch attached. -A > > 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.) > > > > On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >>> >>>>> On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Alec Warner wrote: >>> >>> > Problem: >>> > New stages have numerous news items listed that are likely not >>> > relevant, but are shown due to limitations in the filtering in NEWS >>> > items. E.g. on a recent stage3: >>> >>> > [...] >>> >>> We could add an "Expires:" header to the news item format, and the >>> package manager (or eselect news) could mask old items based on it. >>> >> >> Ok, I'll submit a patch to the GLEP for this. Stay tuned. >> >> -A >> >> >>> >>> Ulrich >>> >> >> >
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