UPDATING: Remove old entries

[imp]

Summary

Belatedly remove the entries older than the stable/11 branch point after
stable/13 was created. This should be done shortly after the branch, not
well after the branch point.

Document this policy in UPDATING, though other checklists should likely
be updated as well.

Sponsored by: Netflix

[netchild]

Typo: "entriels"

As a non native speaker I would have expected something like "As an example" for the second sentence.

[imp]

In D37514#852925, @netchild wrote:

Typo: "entriels"

As a non native speaker I would have expected something like "As an example" for the second sentence.

I'll fix the typo. Good suggestion for text to use. I'm hoping whoever updates it will document the next thing
to do and the next time to do it. Not sure how to capture that.

[grahamperrin]

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1

7

1637–1641

This paragraph should fall below the 'COMMON ITEMS:' heading.

1870–1871

Blank line before a heading.

Whilst here, make the heading somehow truer to the headed text.

(Within the originally headed text: "… fetch an UPDATING file …" is not a formatting instruction; and so on.)

1873–1877

Change the date.

Whilst here, maybe change the wording (not all changes are breakages; and so on).

1881

Does this date change?

(The question might have been answered in some other revision … I can't find it, sorry.)

If the date should never (or rarely) change: maybe drop a hint above, under FORMAT AND CONTENT.

[grahamperrin]

UPDATING

1637–1641

… sorry, I seem to have lost the blank line above COMMON ITEMS:

[grahamperrin]

UPDATING

1637–1641

This paragraph should fall below the 'COMMON ITEMS:' heading.

For clarity: not directly below.

I mean, it should fall somewhere below.

Probably somewhere below FORMAT AND CONTENT:

[emaste]

This seems like the right amount to remove

UPDATING

7

These can/should be committed as independent fixes