Merge pull request #1738 from carpentries/znk-2023-11-29-blog

Zhian blog post 2023-11-29

Author: OscarSiba

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+layout: page
+authors: ["Zhian N. Kamvar"]
+teaser: "Updates to instructor view, doi badges, and more"
+title: "Release of Sandpaper 0.15.0"
+date: 2023-11-27
+time: "09:00:00"
+tags: ["Lesson Infrastructure", "Community", "Carpentries Workbench", "Beta", "Dovetail"]
+---
+
+This is the eighteenth post continuing [a series that we are calling "The Dovetail",
+about the transition to The Carpentries Workbench](https://carpentries.org/posts-by-tags/#blog-tag-dovetail) (our new lesson infrastructure).
+In this series, we aim to keep members of The Carpentries community abreast of
+the current news about [the Workbench](https://carpentries.github.io/workbench). 
+If you are unfamiliar with The Workbench, you can [watch a video that describes
+the workbench and the beta phase in two minutes](https://youtu.be/x7tETGpF3-4).
+
+If you are interested in participating in discussions around The Carpentries
+Workbench, or if you have questions, head over to our [GitHub Discussions forum](https://github.com/carpentries/workbench/discussions).
+
+<span style='font-size: large;'>If you have used the workbench and would like to provide feedback, please
+<b><a href='https://carpentries.typeform.com/to/KRBl4IZM'>tell us about your experience</a>.</b></span> 
+
+## Six months of success
+
+As of 16 November 2023, we acheived a milestone of 6 months where all of our lessons
+have been using The Workbench. Since the last update on 13 April 2023, we have
+seen a huge outpouring of support from the community to support the lesson
+transition phase that was finalized on 16 May 2023 when [Foundations of
+Astronomical Data Science](https://datacarpentry.org/astronomy-python/) was
+transitioned to use The Workbench. 
+
+Since then, we have been hard at work to shore up capacity within the Core Team
+while fixing bugs and implementing new features such as the processing of
+workshop overview pages, child documents, and a `spoiler` class of fenced divs
+to collapse parts of the lesson. 
+
+## Sandpaper 0.15.0 to be released on 29 November 2023
+
+In this next version of the user interface to The Workbench, we have
+implemented features that have been requested. 
+
+1. R Markdown lessons can choose to render a handout by using `handout: true`
+   in their `config.yaml` (this will be available for all lessons with the
+   release of pegboard 0.8.0). 
+2. The "More" dropdown menu for the Instructor view will now also contain links
+   to the learner materials underneath the Instructor materials.    
+   ![screenshot of a dropdown menu from "intstructor training" that is split
+   into two sections: one section for instructors and another with links for
+   learners]({{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2023/11/2023-11-22-instructor-screen.png)
+3. For peer-reviewed lessons, adding a `doi:` with a valid DOI in the
+   `config.yaml` will have a DOI badge to appear in the tool bar that links to
+   the publication or archive (see image below).
+4. For those building the lessons in Docker, the `site/` folder is now
+   customisable using the `SANDPAPER_SITE` environment variable.
+
+In addition, we will release {varnish} 0.4.0, which will update the visual
+styling of the status badges to make them more prominent.
+
+<figure>
+  <img src='{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2023/11/2023-11-10-doi-screen.png' alt='carpentries logo with a pale yellow badge with a blue border that says "DOI" with a doi number appended' style='border: solid 1pt black;'/>
+  <img src='{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2023/11/2023-11-10-beta-screen.png' alt='carpentries logo with a blue badge that says "beta"' style='border: solid 1pt black;'/>
+  <img src='{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2023/11/2023-11-10-alpha-screen.png' alt='carpentries logo with a yellow badge that says "alpha"' style='border: solid 1pt black;'/>
+  <img src='{{ site.urlimg }}/blog/2023/11/2023-11-10-pre-alpha-screen.png' alt='carpentries logo with a red badge that says "pre-alpha"' style='border: solid 1pt black;'/>
+  <figcaption>
+  The new badge formats. 
+  </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+All this along with documentation upgrades and bugfixes will be available
+starting on 29 November 2023, and it will automatically propogate to all lessons by
+5 December 2023.
+
+## Giving Thanks
+
+It has been over six months since we wrote a Dovetail blog post and needless to
+say, there are a lot of people that I would like to thank. I'm grateful for
+everyone who has taken the opportunity to open issues in The Workbench
+repositories to report bugs or features needed. I'm especially grateful for
+everyone who has additionally opened pull requests to fix these bugs. 
+
+The whole reason this project works is because of the community. Full stop.
+Below, I list all the contributors from GitHub who have opened issues or pull
+requests that have lead to bugfixes or features in The Workbench, but I do want
+to acknowledge that there are so many more people who could be named here,
+including the Maintainers who have been able to give feedback directly in
+Maintainer meetings, Lesson Developers working in The Carpentries Incubator
+giving feedback about their use case, everyone from the internationalisation
+community whose continued efforts bring us closer to natively supporting
+translations, and last but not least, the brave souls who are willing to open
+an issue and dream that we will continue to grow.
+
+### Sandpaper
+
+Thank you to all the people who have who have contributed to or opened issues
+that have led to the improvement of {sandpaper} since version 0.11.15:
+[@froggleston](https://github.com/froggleston),
+[@karenword](https://github.com/karenword),
+[@ErinBecker](https://github.com/ErinBecker),
+[@fherreazcue](https://github.com/fherreazcue),
+[@tobyhodges](https://github.com/tobyhodges),
+[@milanmlft](https://github.com/milanmlft),
+[@apirogov](https://github.com/apirogov),
+[@fnattino](https://github.com/fnattino),
+[@tesaunders](https://github.com/tesaunders),
+[@mwhamgenomics](https://github.com/mwhamgenomics),
+[@kaijagahm](https://github.com/kaijagahm),
+[@jcolomb](https://github.com/jcolomb),
+[@klbarnes20](https://github.com/klbarnes20),
+[@ocaisa](https://github.com/ocaisa),
+[@joelnitta](https://github.com/joelnitta),
+[@velait](https://github.com/velait),
+[@cynthiaftw](https://github.com/cynthiaftw),
+[@debpaul](https://github.com/debpaul),
+[@bencomp](https://github.com/bencomp),
+[@ostephens](https://github.com/ostephens)
+and [@twrightsman](https://github.com/twrightsman)
+
+### Pegboard
+
+Thank you to all the people who have who have contributed to or opened issues
+that have led to the improvement of {pegboard} since version 0.5.2:
+[@joelnitta](https://github.com/joelnitta),
+[@trhallam](https://github.com/trhallam),
+[@tobyhodges](https://github.com/tobyhodges),
+[@klbarnes20](https://github.com/klbarnes20),
+[@beastyblacksmith](https://github.com/beastyblacksmith),
+[@ErinBecker](https://github.com/ErinBecker)
+and [@uschille](https://github.com/uschille)
+
+### Varnish
+
+Thank you to all the people who have contributed to or opened issues
+that have led to the improvement of {varnish} since version 0.2.16:
+[@brownsarahm](https://github.com/brownsarahm),
+[@froggleston](https://github.com/froggleston),
+[@tobyhodges](https://github.com/tobyhodges),
+[@Robadob](https://github.com/Robadob),
+[@marklcrowe](https://github.com/marklcrowe)
+and [@bencomp](https://github.com/bencomp)
+
+
+