Meshery: [UI] Community Feed

[leecalcote]

Current Behavior

The "Community" link in Meshery currently opens a new browser window.

Desired Behavior

The "Community" link should instead open a local page in Meshery that contains a segmented list of noteworthy items in the community. Items may be an interesting blog post, upcoming event, recent project release, recently news, and so on.

Implementation

1. Noteworthy items should be dynamically retrieved from a remote endpoint.
2. Noteworthy items should be presented in categories with the following segments: News (posts, news), Events (talks, workshops), Releases
3. Create the layer5.io/community/feed endpoint to provided a JSON-formatted list of the ~10 most recent items containing frontmatter variable community-feed with value of true.

Mockups

Acceptance Tests

1. Entries are shown in descending order by date.
2. When Meshery UI deployed in an environment that does not allow or have access to the Internet (to the community news endpoint), then the user is shown a form to subscribe to the community newsletter.
3. The remote endpoint should be set JSON-formatted endpoint should be created and available from layer5.io.

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[leecalcote]

@MaximeCoignus interested in taking this on?

[Shulammite-Aso]

@leecalcote is there still need to work on this?

I see the _community_ link on meshery UI opens up Layer5's slack. This is the link you're referring to right? and not the one on the website meshery.io?

[leecalcote]

@Shulammite-Aso, yes, there's still effort needed here (no effort has been given as of yet other than describing the request).

We're looking for the "Community" link to be updated or a new "Updates" link to be added to read from an RSS feed (or endpoint that returns a simple json doc or markdown doc) that contains latest community updates (e.g. announcement of a new release, an upcoming webinar, and so on). This new endpoint will need to be created on layer5.io.

[Shulammite-Aso]

This makes sense @leecalcote. would like to work on this. However the endpoint at layer5.io is not ready yet, will i need to create this endpoint myself too?

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[leecalcote]

@Shulammite-Aso oh, my goodness. I completely missed your comment! If this is still of interest, please strike up a conversation in the community Slack and let's get an endpoint underway.

[Shulammite-Aso]

Will do this @leecalcote

[leecalcote]

@Shulammite-Aso excellent. :) I'm tagging @Nikhil-Ladha and @vineethvanga18 as two individuals to engage in this effort. They will be most supportive collaborators. 👍

[Shulammite-Aso]

Great @leecalcote. On slack, I have suggested working on the endpoint too. If it's possible for me to take it up, then i'd appreciate their help a lot. I just like the idea of contributing with Go too.