On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01/05/2018 10:28 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > > On 2018-01-05 15:16, William Hubbs wrote: > >> 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 > > > > I thought it was three years. > > > > At any rate, I think a year is too short. > > > > How about 18 months? > > > > I might sound like a broken CD here, but why define the expiration as > part of the news format instead of specifying it in the package manager > as a user defined variable? Various use cases requires different > treatment, so leaving it up to user seems more relevant to me, and we > could allow information to be presented as part of stages to give a hint > for what dates to look for? > The short answer is I haven't seen any real use cases for it and even if we were to spec it out and add it, I don't think it would be used by more than 10 people. To me that is an incentive to avoid complicating the software spec. -A > -- > Kristian Fiskerstrand > OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net > fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 > >
