ER: Use VRMS data to update the meeting times on the CoP page

[JessicaLucindaCheng]

Emergent Requirement - Problem

Currently, the meeting times on the Communities of Practice (CoP) page ¹ are manually updated in the yml files under _data/internal/communities ². This can make the meeting times out of date with the meeting times on the Events page ³.

Issue you discovered this emergent requirement in

• Communities of Practice information updates: Engineering #5132

Date discovered

2023-Aug-06

Did you have to do something temporarily

• YES
• NO

Who was involved

@JessicaLucindaCheng

What happens if this is not addressed

We have to continue manually editing the CoP yml files to update meeting times.

Recommended Action Items

• Make 2 new issues. See "Potential solutions [draft]" section
• Discuss with team
• Let a Team Lead know

Potential solutions [draft]

1. Write an issue with "Complexity: Large" to start pulling the meeting time from the VRMS data similar to how the project's pages ⁴ using the VRMS data from _data/external/vrms_data.json ⁵.
2. Write another issue with a "Complexity: Small" label needs to be written that adds the note below to the "Communities of Practice information updates" form's template ⁶ "Resources" section. Also, add a "Dependency" section at the top of the issue and add a link to the issue you wrote in 1 above.

If you need to update your meeting times, names, dates, or frequency, please see the [VRMS User Guide](https://github.com/hackforla/VRMS/wiki/User-Guide). The HackforLA.org website gets the meeting times from the updates made to each Community of Practice's meeting data in vrms.io

Resources

• Use VRMS data to update the meeting times on the CoP page #7072
• Update CoP information updates form #7273

Footnotes

1. Communities of Practice (CoP) page ↩

2. _data/internal/communities ↩

3. Events page ↩

4. https://www.hackforla.org/projects/311-data ↩

5. https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/_data/external/vrms_data.json ↩

6. .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/communities-of-practice-information-updates.yml ↩

[github-actions]

Hi @del9ra, thank you for taking up this issue! Hfla appreciates you :)

Do let fellow developers know about your:-
i. Availability: (When are you available to work on the issue/answer questions other programmers might have about your issue?)
ii. ETA: (When do you expect this issue to be completed?)

You're awesome!

P.S. - You may not take up another issue until this issue gets merged (or closed). Thanks again :)

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Here is an example ER and the Large issue that was created from it

• ER: ER: Event Page "Our Events" Section Unexpected Behavior When Resizing #6687
• Large issue: Fix Our Events Card Glitch After Toggling and Resizing Window #6775

[del9ra]

i. Availability: Monday-Friday 10AM - 3PM
ii. ETA: June 30

[t-will-gillis]

@del9ra @JessicaLucindaCheng Just want to confirm. I merged #7169 fixes #7072 which addresses Item 1 above. Is there supposed to be an issue for Item 2 as well?

[del9ra]

@del9ra @JessicaLucindaCheng Just want to confirm. I merged #7169 fixes #7072 which addresses Item 1 above. Is there supposed to be an issue for Item 2 as well?

Hi Will @t-will-gillis , I created a small issue for item 2 #7273

[del9ra]

Closing this ER. 2 issues created: small #7273 and large #7072