PSC Vote: Keeping old NEWS in the news file for non-EOL versions

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Sep 13, 2025, at 11:13 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
> That said, how about this as a compromise.  Moving forward we'll keep all
> that crap in the NEWs file, but as soon as we call EOL on a version, we
> remove all remnants of it from the master NEWS.

No compromise, I require total victory. Being able to scroll through 25 years of history is the *point*, it’s magical and amazing. And as Greg points out, it costs nothing. You can still scroll only the last release, it’s right at the top of the file, easy to find. 

About the only pieces of news I would be willing to dispense with are those occasional orphan alpha/beta release blocks which could be either removed, if they are just memorializing bug fixes, or rolled into the appropriate final release if they are “important”.

And yeah, like strk I think bug fix entries are important and again, since they only appear in patch releases, and only on the relevant stable branches, they are correctly ring fenced for the right people. If you are on a stable branch, you care about bug fixes in that branch.

Curiously, the way I want it to be is the way it has always been. I must be old.

P
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