Road to Launch

[doomspork]

I'm going to use this issue to outline what remains to get this iteration of Elixir School live 🚀

Must Have

1. Update Lessons menu to be more responsive. cc @burden
2. Move gettext into external repo to keep translation materials together. Note: The downside here is keeping them updated. I will tackle this.
3. Automated deploys for changes to both repositories Trigger Heroku Deploy Action on merge of elixirschool/elixirschool repo. #20
4. Announcement blog post

Nice to Have

1. Add code examples to homepage and Why Elixir? pages Code examples for homepage and "why elixir?" #32
2. Blog RSS feed. We have this currently so it would be a loss of functionality for a short time. I could see this being move to Must Have. Implement RSS feed support for the blog #54
3. Sitemap.xml Create a Mix Task to generate a sitemap.xml #62
4. Expand on the Why Elixir and homepage copy
5. Document project

[kinson]

@doomspork I am taking a stab at the first item on the must have list right now as a part of #9 . If you'd rather @burden (avoiding re-notifying them) tackle it, I can help with something else on this list!

[doomspork]

@kinson have at it! I think Mike is pretty swamped with work lately so I'm not sure what his availability is.

[doomspork]

@gemantzu as a translator what are your thoughts on 2:

Move gettext into external repo to keep translation materials together. Note: The downside here is keeping them updated. I will tackle this.

Right now the gettext for Phoenix is in this repo and includes some content that needs translation. Everything else lives in the original repository.

[gemantzu]

I would say that if we won't have them inside the elixirschool lessons repo, don't move them, a third repo will overcomplicate things for translators. And would there be any benefit from that? when will you know when to force an update in the application if a gettext translation has changed? is there a way to automate this as well?

[doomspork]

I'm suggesting moving them from https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house into https://github.com/elixirschool/elixirschool, alongside the lessons/posts.

I'm of the mind to leave this as is for now and if it becomes a hurdle for translators we can move them.

[doomspork]

Merges of new content to elixirschool/elixirschool will now trigger a deploy here. There's an issue with the deploy (separate of that) that I need to resolve.

@kinson I just realized we're both in Denver 🎉 We should grab coffee one day, my treat 😁

[kinson]

@doomspork great idea! I am not sure what your preferred method of chat is, but feel free to send me an email at [email protected] and we can find a time & place that works!

[doomspork]

Email sent 🚀

I felt super motivated this weekend so I've been working my way through the list. I've got a PR open for sitemap and rss mix tasks #64 if someone wants to take a peek. There's also #60 which I updated to reply on a Makefile instead of mix task so it was easier to use in Docker pre-compile.

[doomspork]

I've started on the blog post for this announcement 👍