People profiles update logic - if updated on Fireside, how are they scraped or not?

[gerbrent]

I conducted an experiment that led to some questions:

Given a host/guest profile is updated on Fireside..

Currently:

• the guest's hugo profile is not updated after an explicit scraper launch and hugo rebuild.

Steps to reproduce:

• change profile on Fireside
• manually launch scraper workflow via GH Actions
• manually launch hugo/site CI workflow via GH Actions
• inspect hugo profile for changes - no change committed

Expected Behaviour

• since, at present, we are using Fireside as the source-of-truth for episode and people data, the updates to a Fireside profile should be committed to a hugo profile. (this could potentially be destructive..)

Example: Alecks Gates

• Alecks on Fireside
• Alecks on hugo

Typo in his description was fixed on Fireside just now, from The "Offical" Podcasting 2.0 consultant. to The "Official" Podcasting 2.0 consultant. - i.e. Offical -> Official

Hugo profile still contains typo: "bio": "The \"Offical\" Podcasting 2.0 consultant.",

https://github.com/JupiterBroadcasting/jupiterbroadcasting.com/blob/e061ece2275ce0b3010223ba0be8eba0986e615d/data/people/agates.json#L5

[kbondarev]

Okay. I’ll modify the scraper to override hosts, guests, and sponsors. Currently it also overrides the latest episode of each show. Is it safe to assume older shows won’t be modified? Should it maybe override the 3 or even 10 latest episodes of each show? I did see a change recently that after some episode was published the link to the meetup page was modified.

maybe it would be good to run it over all the shows one last time before WordPress shutdown.

[kbondarev]

Also, what about avatar files? Override them as well or no?