Extract rules to top-meta and fetch/parse them from there onto the app

[JoshDevHub]

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1. Description of the Feature Request:

For building a new feature of for odin-bot, it'd help the developers if the community discord rules existed in a markdown file. We could duplicate the rules into a markdown file somewhere, but then there would be two sources of truth for that information. Keeping them in-sync would be a problem.

So a solution could be to extract the rules into a markdown file that lives in the top-meta repo. The Odin site can fetch and parse this in a similar fashion to how it currently works with the curriculum repo's lessons. This allows one source of truth for the rules to live on top-meta, and other tools (ie the site and the bot) can programmatically interact with that file.

2. Acceptance Criteria:

• [x] Create a copy of the current rules on the top-meta repo. This will be the source of truth for the discord rules going forward.
• [ ] Rather than having rules hardcoded in the app with this erb file, the app should read the new markdown file in the top-meta repo. The rules should no longer live with the app directly.

[Asartea]

Isn't this covered by https://github.com/TheOdinProject/top-meta/issues/281 ?

[ManonLef]

@Asartea it's part of it. This change needs to happen for several reasons too :)

[ManonLef]

@JoshDevHub Just to be sure regarding the acceptance criteria: The copy will become the source of truth correct? And the other file will be manually updated or removed so we don't have 2 copies to maintain?

The issue we've had in the past was one of the copies being forgotten and getting outdated so I just want to be extra extra sure :D

I will also assign this to you since this was already discussed on discord afaik.

[JoshDevHub]

@ManonLef Yes you're correct. The intent would be that the top-meta rules will be the only rules. Future updates to the rules would go there and not on the site. I'll edit the acceptance criteria for clarity on that point.

[ChargrilledChook]

Voicing my support for this as a concept 🐢

[JoshDevHub]

PR to the top-meta repo with the rules in a Markdown file: https://github.com/TheOdinProject/top-meta/pull/288