Title munging (TechNewsWorld) [LWN.net]

Title munging (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 26, 2007 13:59 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Raw Titles (TechNewsWorld) by Max.Hyre
Parent article: Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth: Prepare for the Shared Software Tidal Wave (TechNewsWorld)

Interestingly, the title of this comment's predecessor (and, I expect, this one) have ``(TechNewsWorld)'' appended, even though I changed the title for my comment.

I certainly don't remember this being the case in the past (e.g., http://lwn.net/Articles/176631/). Jon, did you change LWN's code to automatically add the source to titles, and it's a bit overenthusiastic?

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Title munging

Posted Jun 26, 2007 19:53 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

If you try make another reply, you will find that "(TechNewsWorld)" stands after a newline. It's hard to deal with newlines in single-line entry boxes, since there is no indication that they are present. They can be found by moving the cursor beyond the apparent line end.

As for the article, I did read it, and I specifically checked that "shared software" wasn't mentioned anywhere except the title. However, the title makes it seem that "shared software" comes from Mark Shuttleworth.

He does use "open sources" once, and so does the interviewer. Anyway, it's remarkable that a different term was used in the title, soon after OSI announced its intention to enforce its definition of Open Source.

Title munging (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 27, 2007 3:23 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

No, I've done nothing to try to change the titles others choose - not even hiding parts behind a newline. Not sure why people are seeing that. Will look into it - after I've recovered from my day in airline hell and given my OLS talk...

Title munging (TechNewsWorld)

Posted Jun 29, 2007 5:25 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

You might consider adding a notation like [sic] to flag a misleading title.