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Diffstat (limited to 'contributing')
| -rw-r--r-- | contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn index 7062359f..4c09e1ab 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn @@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ For practical work that means to use the following commands: * at the beginning of a month: create a new news entry - $ cp news/2009-06-30.mdwn news/YYYY-MM-DD.mdwn + $ cp news/2009-07-31.mdwn news/YYYY-MM-DD.mdwn $ # edit the new file $ git add news/YYYY-MM-DD.mdwn $ git commit -m "Begun the news entry for YYYY-MM-DD." - That is, use the *2009-06-30* news snippet as a template for the new + That is, use the *2009-07-31* news snippet as a template for the new one. * check the outgoing changes @@ -87,7 +87,13 @@ For practical work that means to use the following commands: going on, you'd have to repeat this again (and again...) before succeeding to push your changes.) - * at the end of the month: publish the news + * 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. + + * ... and publish $ git checkout master $ git pull --rebase |