Want new blog posts without the draft tag#176
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Also want basic proof reading in advance to speed up the PR review.
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| ## How to Submit Your Blog Post | ||
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| This assumes you've already shared a first draft with the OBF Board for comment |
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| This assumes you've already shared a first draft with the OBF Board for comment | |
| Before starting a PR here, please share your blog post draft (in the form of a google doc) with the OBF Board for comments. Once the Board has reviewed and approved it, please make a PR as described here. |
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| and feedback - we'd like to catch and fix minor issues like typos before this point. |
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| and feedback - we'd like to catch and fix minor issues like typos before this point. |
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| 4. View template raw, and Copy and paste all the contents of this template into the new file. | ||
| 5. Replace the placeholder text (date, title, author, content, image name, etc.) with your actual blog content. | ||
| 6. Remove the `draft: true` line (we don't want the template published, we do want your post published). |
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I don't get what this means about the template being published.
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Also make it clearer that we usually do basic proof reading done in advance to speed up the PR review (often with Google Docs but need not be).
Currently we have had to manually remove the
draft: trueline as part of PR review (eg #172) or right afterwards when we notice the post hasn't gone live (eg #139).Q: Provided the post has already been proof-read then there should only be a short delay (a few days) before these being merged, but should the template suggest future dating the post anticipating this?