Permissionless tutorial publishing - Migrate courses from Contentful to GitHub

[saumyakaran]

Currently we use Contentful to host the content. This creates a bottleneck for instructors publishing tutorials. Ideally, the instructor should be able to simply make a PR to a content repo to get their course/tutorial (written in gitorial format) published on dotcodeschool.

[andrzejSulkowski]

Totally Agree, this is a huge pain point - I had to set up a Contentful Account, data structure, and example data just to get started.
It’s urgent this gets fixed in order to attract more course creators as well as to simplify the maintenance.

[andrzejSulkowski]

Do you mean with gitorial the spec from Shawn: https://github.com/gitorial-sdk/cli?
If yes, you can assign this issue to me. I am currently working on a vs code extension to go through gitorials. After finishing it, it would make sense to implement this here as well.

[saumyakaran]

@andrzejSulkowski The idea does work off of the gitorial idea to some extent, but there's 2 things that I had in mind:

1. It should be done in a way that's intuitive for any newcomer to understand (similar to say the https://github.com/w3f/polkadot-wiki/tree/master for example) - gitorial is an additional overhead to learn imo
2. You'd need to work off of Feature/on machine tutorials #20 - which has the latest code changes - and it's significantly different (and more complex I think) compared to the initial codebase.

If you still wish to work on this, let me know and we can plan something out.

[saumyakaran]

update: https://github.com/dotcodeschool/frontend/tree/feature/articles addresses this

[andrzejSulkowski]

I see. In this case I'll pass for now. I am too busy trying to figure out how to make my living without committing to full-time employment (through open source and/or freelancing)... 😅, and this would just take up too much time without any promise of funding.

Hopefully soon I'll be in a spot where I can put in some extra hours again! 💪

[saumyakaran]

@andrzejSulkowski while this specific issue is closed now, I think you could receive a small tip for the contribution you've made - https://github.com/polkadot-developers/bounties

attack the #19 as proof - while there's no guarantee of receiving funding, i think your contribution deserves a small tip