Front page layout four

[QuillPusher]

Note: This is a fork built on top of the Front Page Layout already created for PR157. Following are only the changes made after that PR

Important Note: If this PR is merged, there is no need to merge PR115!

Changes in this PR:

Multiple News Timelines POC - Front Page Layout 4

• added 4 fixed height boxes showing the following timelines:

  • Project Meetings
  • Recent News
  • Open Projects
  • Team Meetings

• Updated homelay.html to add new boxes

• updated news.html and added similar open-projects, project-meetings and team-meetings layouts to make up the timeline boxes

• removed scroll functionality to make the boxes uniform

• Had to reformat the standing_meetings.yml, since it was only considering it as one news item.

  • Also had to edit date parameter to enable sorting.

  • Finally, moved the updates link to meeting notes doc outside the agenda since it was messing with the sorting (error: can't sort null date)

• removed an extra space from team_meetings page that was messing up the layout

[QuillPusher]

@davidlange6 requested review changes made:

• Fixed News sorting (still looks a bit different since Releases are not part of it now)

• Separated News from Release

• Added new releases.yml, releases.html Include file and a releases,md Markdown page to list releases

• Added Releases timeline on front page (homelay.html)

• reverted formatting changes to standing_meetings.yml and team-meetings.md since these are no longer used for front page timeline

[QuillPusher]

[davidlange6]

looks basically good to me.

• seems there is lots of whitespace
• the headings could be tweaked -> "Releases" -> "Software releases", "Recent News" -> "News" (everything is "recent" in these boxes
• dates need to be in a consistent format
• the releases yml should separate code and release version instead of free text, so that we can eventually select based on code [and we don't need "released" to be repeated on each line

[QuillPusher]

review changes made.

YML Format:

• date: 2024-03-01 codebase: "CppInterOp" version: "v1.2.0" link: "https://github.com/compiler-research/CppInterOp/releases/tag/v1.2.0"

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