[relnotes] [Bug 501805] New: Ugly URLS that may change on rebuild due to DocBook section ID attribute not set

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Summary: Ugly URLS that may change on rebuild due to DocBook section ID attribute not set

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501805

           Summary: Ugly URLS that may change on rebuild due to DocBook
                    section ID attribute not set
           Product: Fedora Documentation
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
               URL: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11preview
                    /en-US/index.html
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: urgent
          Priority: urgent
         Component: release-notes
        AssignedTo: relnotes at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: kwade at redhat.com
         QAContact: kwade at redhat.com
                CC: wb8rcr at arrl.net
            Blocks: 151189
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---


It appears that none of the section ID attributes were set for the Fedora 11
release notes, so URLs are ugly ...

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11preview/en-US/index.html#id2781534

... instead of pretty and welcoming ...

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/index.html#Welcome_to_Fedora_10

In addition, it is possible that the generated ID attributes are different
every time the release notes are built from DocBook source.  This means that
when the release notes are updated with bug fixes, it may break every single
URL link inward.  That is not good.  (Not sure if this behavior is still the
same in the DocBook toolchain.)

As a person who has done the manual ID attribute creation since forever, I know
what a PITA it is.  There are ways to work this out with improvements to the
toolchain (either how the DocbBook comes from the wiki or how Publican handles
it by auto-generating ID attributes from the contents of the <title> block). 
In the meanwhile, I can only see manual ID attributes as the way to go.

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