Standardize Authors/Bylines

[asg017]

Right now, you say which authors contributing to an article with a post's metadata, like so:

export const meta = {
    authors: [
        {name: "Alex Garcia", github: "asg017"},
        {name: "Chau Vu", github: "cqvu"},
    ],
    // other metadata here
}

Then, in TutorialLayout, we use the Github API to other metadata like the person's Github profile pic and maybe other stuff.

It may be kindof tiring to type in {name: "Alex Garcia", github: "asg017"} everytime. So maybe we can have a "database" of authors that we can key into with just a github username. Like:

// authors.js
export const authors = {
    "asg017": {
        name: "Alex Garcia", 
        major: "Computer Engineering", 
        classof: 2019, 
        college: "Revelle"
    },
  "cqvu": {
        name: "Chau Vu", 
        major: "Computer Engineering", 
        classof: 2020, 
        college: "Warren" // I think?
    },
}

Then, in every tutorial post, you only need to supply your Github username, and we can handle the rest, like so:

export const meta = {
    authors: ['asg017', 'cqvu'],
   // other fields here
}

One problem with this is that we would need to add to the "database" everytime a new author writes a new tutorial. But, I think asking them to add themselves into the "database" isn't too difficult and probably won't discourage people from writing.