To contribute to the MDS blog, follow these steps to work with the blog’s Editor, which is currently Varada Kolhatkar (@kvarada
):
- Contact the Editor and agree on the basic outline of the post.
- Fork the repo that houses this site and give the Editor write access to the fork.
- Create a new file in the
_posts
directory, write a draft, and push it to your fork.- For eventual social media posting it’s best to include a
share-img
; for example, see the 3rd line here. - Please also add a byline at the bottom with your name and whatever you want to say about yourself.
- Optionally, consider adding a line break after each line of text. This will allow the diffs to show up much better while the post is being edited.
- For eventual social media posting it’s best to include a
- Submit a pull request from your fork to the blog repo (but be careful not to send it to the parent of the blog repo, which can happen by accident).
- Iterate back and forth with the Editor until the post is ready.
- The Editor will merge the PR and the post will automatically appear on the MDS blog.