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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="""How to prepare and publish a "Quarter of the Hurd" for the last
+quarter"""]]
+
+We prepare a *Quarter of the Hurd* in the file [[qoth_next]].  The idea is
+to record to-be-published changes in that file at they time they arise, and
+then publish them en bloc at the end of the quarter.  There are instructions for
+[[writing_the_qoth]].
+
+  * At the end of the quarter: prepare for publishing the QotH, then send the raw
+    Markdown text to the mailing list, asking for feedback.
+
+  * ..., and publish.
+
+        $ git mv contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn news/YYYY-MM.mdwn
+
+    Edit the news entry's *meta date* value to the timestamp when the news
+    entry is published.  We have to set that one manually, as otherwise the
+    timestamp of the news entry file's creation will be taken, which is (much)
+    earlier, and not what we want.  We do not set the *meta updated* value, as
+    it's correct to update that one upon further modifications of the news
+    entries.
+
+        $ git cp contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
+        $ git commit -m 'QotH YYYY-MM.'
+        $ git push origin master