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.tmcignore specify course

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by tracing how .tmcignore is read and how the hidden course’s exercises are selected. Compare the proposed course-name rules with the metadata.yml ignore option; the work is done when ignore behavior can target one course without hiding exercises from weeks 8–14.

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Description

enhancement

It would be nice to be able to specify which course .tmcignore file concerns.

This currently hidden course: https://tmc.mooc.fi/hy/courses/42 should be a good example.
Now we have exercises from week 1 to week7 listed as hidden when we only want to show weeks 8 to 14 to users.

Possible fixes:

  • If .tmcignore contains text lines contain course names that the rule applies to. One course name per line.
  • .coursename.tmcignore, probably bad idea because course names might contains some special characters? But would be fast to check. Possibly lot's of ignore files.
  • Get rid of .tmcignore and use metadata.yml ignore: true
Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
51
Forks
42
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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