New on dashboard: Direct link to active review forum thread

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I wanted to make folks aware of a recent enhancement to the Swift Evolution dashboard.

When a proposal is in "Active Review" the status in the details list now links to the review thread in the Swift forums.

It’s a small change but makes navigating from the dashboard to the ongoing discussion of a proposal much easier. (And as always, the proposal title remains a link to the full proposal.)

screen capture showing the underline of the 'Active Review' status indicating a link.
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Note: If the original proposal does not have a 'review' link in its Review header field, no link will appear in the dashboard.

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it'd be nice if the links were styled like links, so they're easily discoverable even for people who don't see this post. i can see an argument for the proposal title staying as-is, but the status link should definitely stand out when it's a link, especially if some proposals might not have it

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Thank you for the feedback @simonomi.

Many of the detail field values on the dashboard are already links (for example each author, review manager, implementation and bug/issue links) so this enhancement uses the existing link styling.

The dashboard is part of the swift-org-website project and I have filed an issue there referencing your feedback to consider changing the link styling.

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