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| -rw-r--r-- | contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn index 4c09e1ab..ac7653a9 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn @@ -89,9 +89,12 @@ For practical work that means to use the following commands: * at the end of the month: prepare for publishing the news - Edit the news entry's *meta date* and *meta updated* time values. For - stability, we set these two explicitly instead of relying on ikiwiki's - method of using the files' creation and modification dates. + Edit the news entry's *meta date* value to the timestamp when the news + entry is [[published|news]]. 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. * ... and publish |