From c8d9b04da3a0d6e0eb93b4de582c514d05fa6d14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:28:39 +0200 Subject: No more [[!meta updated=...]], but some more explanations. --- contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'contributing') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3