Re: News events listing favoring month-long training

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I think we need to fix the events listing.  Training that spans
> > months stays at the top of the list for much too long.
>
> Yes, I've been wondering about that as well.
>
> I think the best solution would be to show *all* events that fall within
> a certain time span, say the next 30 days, and possibly fill that up to
> show at least 3 or 5.
>
> Consider the case where we had one event every day.  The current listing
> would be useless because it would only show the events that are
> happening right now, which you surely aren't going to because they are
> already going on.  The events that are most interesting for the readers
> are the ones that they can make plans for, so that would be the coming
> 4 weeks or so.

Seems we should expire news items from the list when the are more than
one week past their start date.

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