Better anchoring of announcements

[jakirkham]

Where should the content be added?

Announcements

What should be added?

Currently when clicking on a specific year to get an anchor, the link given is id1 or similar. However these anchors will become outdated as each year passes and the links will then point to the wrong year.

Specific announcement themselves don't include anchors, so one is currently unable to link to a specific announcement they may wish to share with others.

Would be helpful to have permalinks (to the extent possible) to both years and specific announcements. This would make it easier to highlight a specific announcement to share with others.

Additional information

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[ssurbhi560]

I am taking this up @jakirkham! :)

[jakirkham]

Great thank you! This would be nice to solve 🙂

[kathatherine]

@ssurbhi560 Great to see that the year headers can now be properly linked to! There is also a question above about being able to link to specific announcements. Maybe an important announcement would be separated out in a level 3 header with an explicit link. Might be the only way to get around the restrictions of the sphinxcontrib.newsfeed extension.

[ssurbhi560]

@kathatherine, that's right. I have also been reading and trying to find some way to do it but couldn't find anything till now. I will keep looking for it and find any way to do so, but till then I think what you are suggesting might be the only way to do this.

[kathatherine]

Just leaving a note here to say that Surbhi tested this and any important announcements can just be given an explicit target right above it, like the targets that were added to the year headers and that should satisfy the second requirement of this issue, should it ever come up. We haven't added any currently for any specific announcements.

@beckermr or @jakirkham, we good to close this issue?

[beckermr]

Should we go through and add targets to the old announcements?

[jakirkham]

I think if we could anchor to each date that would be sufficient to close

[beckermr]

Also, when you say you tested it, I presume you mean the RSS feed came out ok?

[kathatherine]

By each date, do you mean the years themselves, @jakirkham, which is already done, or each announcement date?

And good point about the RSS feed, Matt. I am not sure about that. I just saw a screenshot of the output of Surbhi trying an explict target for each announcement. We should definitely double-check the feed before closing.

[beckermr]

I was saying each announcement.

[kathatherine]

That works for me. @ssurbhi560, do you mind editing the branch you had showed me with each announcement given an explicit target, but make the target the date instead of the announcement name? And then push it to a PR so we can check that the feed looks good? Thanks!