Update method in which external content is ingested.

[mrbobbytables]

Currently, external content is brought into the contributor-site via the hack/gen-content.sh bash script. In its original inception, it was quite small and lean -- but as a bash script usually does, it has grown to be unwieldy.

It'd be far better to replace it with a more supportable (and testable) means of bringing in external content. This means rewriting it something like go or python, or finding some other means of bringing in external content.

/kind feature
cc @vishakhanihore @nimbinatus

[markjacksonfishing]

this is a long term replacement and is not needed for the contributor site.

[markjacksonfishing]

/assign @markyjackson-taulia

[nimbinatus]

Hey @markyjackson-taulia! I had started poking at this issue a couple weeks ago to see what we needed. I'm pretty sure a simple include will work with a bit of tweaking. Did you want to see what I had in draft form?

[markjacksonfishing]

@nimbinatus sorry for the delay in responding. I would be interested to see what you have. I am thinking of converting this in its entirety to go so I can include some testing around it.

[nimbinatus]

@markyjackson-taulia sounds good! I'll try to clean up my code with some comments and get my branch up this week for you to poke at.

[nimbinatus]

@markyjackson-taulia here's what I was poking at. It does require a bit more work to add pages to the repo, and it's not 100% accurate yet regarding some of the internal links on each page. However, it's more native to Hugo, so I was hoping it would be a bit cleaner to test.

https://github.com/nimbinatus/contributor-site/blob/shortcode-import/layouts/shortcodes/content.gohtml

[markjacksonfishing]

Will run some test

[mrbobbytables]

The hardest part that I'm concerned about with the hugo method is the replication of the link expander. It determines if the content is has been synced locally and updates it with the correct path, or if not -- expand it to the full github url.

This blurb is slightly out of date (updated in #110), but it is similar enough to explain.
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/blob/fe36c430d92ed0a81cb85e154fa092f55912a3be/hack/gen-content.sh#L68-L89

[markjacksonfishing]

I found that through my testing, using the hugo method did not do fully what I wanted so I am going to redo this. Thank you @nimbinatus for the code

[markjacksonfishing]

/milestone v1.19

[markjacksonfishing]

@nimbinatus I started the work in the above PR, did it in python but there is still more to do.
I would love to pair with you on this.