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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:21:03AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

+1

> 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”.

+1

> 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.

Yeah, it happens. Now get back on IRC ! :D

--strk;

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