2025h1 project goals April update

[lqd]

This is the April 2025h1 project goals update. It's not late at all!

I summarized the All Hands update, turned the async update into its TL;DR, and massaged the RFL one to fix a couple issues.

r? @nikomatsakis

Rendered

[nikomatsakis]

Better late than never, I always say!

[apiraino]

didn't read but found two tiny typos :-p

[apiraino]

lgtm

[lqd]

@senekor what's the procedure now to land posts? I only saw the 9999/12/31 date being described in the blog post generator, but then what do we do, once approved we change the date? But what are the "aliases" and who/when are they filled?

[senekor]

Yes, once the date of publication is known, just change it in the path variable of the front matter, that's it.

Why are you asking about the aliases? (So I can improve documentation about it, depending on what's causing the confusion.)

The aliases are used to preserve permalinks from before the Zola migration. The custom generator used <date>/<slug>.html for the permalink, but Zola doesn't support that intentionally. Only via the aliases feature can we redirect old links to the new ones (<date>/<slug>/, without .html).

Also, the release announcement posts have an additional alias so you don't have to search for a specific post, you can just enter /releases/X.XX.X in the URL bar for the version you want.

Other than that, aliases should not be used. I've seen some new posts created that copy-pasted from old posts to bootstrap the front matter, which then also added the "backwards compatibility" alias to the new post. That's not necessary, but it also doesn't really hurt.

[lqd]

Yes, once the date of publication is known, just change it in the path variable of the front matter, that's it.

Good, thanks!. So I can now do that.

Why are you asking about the aliases?

Because I also initially wanted to start this post by copying the previous month's post, and it has aliases. I tried to find documentation about the process and couldn't find much apart from the generator code.

[lqd]

Alright, the publication date is set to today. Hopefully someone can merge soon.

CI seems to be failing for unrelated reasons (GH is having issues).