ER: Add start dates and end dates to projects

[KwameTaylor]

Emergent Requirement - Problem

For a future feature, we need to have the start date of a project

Details

1. In the future, when we add start and end dates in the sponsor-partner.yml file, we will be able to tell if someone is a founding partner/sponsor if we also have a start date on the project.
2. When we move the information to the People Depot project, it will require project start dates.

Issue you discovered this emergent requirement in

• 5948

Date discovered

2024-05-05

Did you have to do something temporarily

• [ ] YES
• [x] NO

Who was involved

@bonniewolfe @roslynwythe @KwameTaylor

What happens if this is not addressed

Needing to refer back into the past manually to recall this information on older projects

Resources

• https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/_data/external/github-data.json
• https://github.com/hackforla/website/tree/gh-pages/_projects

Recommended Action Items

• [x] Make a new issue
• [x] Discuss with team
• [ ] Let a Team Lead know

Potential solutions [draft]

We need to store the date a repo started. We probably don't need to ever pull this twice (unlike languages, etc), although we will need it for any new repos we add

• ways to get the data?
  • pulling the date of first commit to a project repo
  • If there are multiple repos for the same project, we should use the repo that has the oldest start date
• how to get new data for new repos that get added to the website?
  • suggestions?
  • manually looking it up and adding it the date via pr to the place we store it
  • other?
• where to store it?
  • we could store it in the project.md files
  • it doesn't seem to make sense to store it in the github-data.json
  • other suggestions?

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