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Automate manifesto signing: form → mailing list + auto-published signatory list

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet

Research direction

Start by reading BRIEF.md and PLAN.md in the life-itself/devspaces-consolidation planning repository, then review the listed form, mailing-list, webhook, and build-time options. Done means documenting an agreed architecture, canonical signatory store, consent and affiliation-disclaimer language, moderation step, and implementation plan for automatic updates.

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Description

Currently manifesto signing is a Google Form processed manually (signatories hand-added to manifesto.md).

Desired:

  1. On signup, signatory is added to the mailing list (Substack or ESP — pending email-infra decision, see devspaces-consolidation/BRIEF.md).
  2. Signatory list on /manifesto updates automatically (with consent + affiliation-disclaimer handling).

Needs its own mini research/plan:

  • Options: Google Form + Apps Script → commit to repo / Brevo form + API → build-time fetch / Tally+webhook / custom endpoint.
  • Consent language for public listing; moderation step to prevent spam signatures.
  • Where the canonical signatory store lives (sheet vs repo data file).

Part of the Developmental Spaces consolidation (see life-itself/devspaces-consolidation planning repo: BRIEF.md, PLAN.md).

Dominant language
CSS
Stars
2
Forks
1
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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