From e13a9db92759d20960a2294fe3bad8dc50bddaf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Snoyman Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:15:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Retitle blog post --- posts.yaml | 8 +++++--- ...tainers.md => effective-ways-help-from-maintainers.md} | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) rename posts/{manipulating-maintainers.md => effective-ways-help-from-maintainers.md} (97%) diff --git a/posts.yaml b/posts.yaml index 9bddd39..6237e37 100644 --- a/posts.yaml +++ b/posts.yaml @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ -- file: posts/manipulating-maintainers.md - title: Manipulating Maintainers +- file: posts/effective-ways-help-from-maintainers.md + title: Effective ways to get help from maintainers time: 2017-10-23T08:45:00Z - description: "Exploiting the human nature of open source contributors for fun and profit" + description: "Tapping into the human nature of open source contributors for fun and profit" + old-slugs: + - manipulating-maintainers - file: posts/posture.md title: Posture time: 2017-08-16T09:43:00Z diff --git a/posts/manipulating-maintainers.md b/posts/effective-ways-help-from-maintainers.md similarity index 97% rename from posts/manipulating-maintainers.md rename to posts/effective-ways-help-from-maintainers.md index 824d7c6..b4fd6bd 100644 --- a/posts/manipulating-maintainers.md +++ b/posts/effective-ways-help-from-maintainers.md @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -Real title should be: how to get members of any open source community -to be interested in helping you. But the given title is catchier. +This blog post was previously titled "Manipulating Maintainers," but +has been retitled to more accurately reflect what it's about (with a +less cheeky tone). It's about how to most effectively interact with +and request assistance from maintainers of open source projects, and +open source community members in general. There's an old "ha ha, only serious" joke. If you go to a Linux forum and ask for help fixing your WiFi driver, everyone will ignore