On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:01:26AM -0500, Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:08 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > + In news item format ``>2.0``, this field is mandatory. > > > > I think it should not be mandatory, for the purpose of the tools > > dealing with news items. So I'd simply say here: "Only in news item > > format 2.1 or later." > > > > My concern is that if it isn't mandatory; we will end up with the same > problem. > > No one will set expiry headers on their items and we will be forced to go > back and update old news items to add them once > there are too many items (today's state.) > > Alternatively we could simply state amend the glep to have a default expiry > (say 3y) and if no expires header is present we consume the Posted header > for this purpose.
If we have a default expiration, it should be one year after the date posted to go along with our current policy of not supporting things that are older than a year. William
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