Updating Initial Lesson Metadata Guidelines

[ZoeLeBlanc]

From our Tech Team Meeting #1906 we discussed updating the initial lesson submission metadata to include far fewer fields so that we had fewer user errors and since most of those metadata fields aren't relevant until final submission of the lesson.

Our current template looks like:

# Lesson Metadata

**Delete everything above this line when ready to submit your lesson**.

title: YOUR TITLE HERE
collection: lessons
layout: lesson
slug: LEAVE BLANK
date: LEAVE BLANK
translation_date: LEAVE BLANK
authors:
- FORENAME SURNAME 1
- FORENAME SURNAME 2, etc
reviewers:
- LEAVE BLANK
editors:
- LEAVE BLANK
translator:
- FORENAME SURNAME 1
- FORENAME SURNAME 2, etc
translation-editor:
- LEAVE BLANK
translation-reviewer:
- LEAVE BLANK
original: LEAVE BLANK
review-ticket: LEAVE BLANK
difficulty: LEAVE BLANK
activity: LEAVE BLANK
topics: LEAVE BLANK
abstract: LEAVE BLANK
---

and we would be proposing cutting this down to:

# Lesson Metadata

**Delete everything above this line when ready to submit your lesson**.

title: YOUR TITLE HERE
collection: lessons
layout: lesson
---

To do this we would need to update the lesson template for each language, which should be a quick fix but we would also need each language team to update their editor guidelines so that the original fields do get added back in prior to moving the lesson over to the main repository.

[rivaquiroga]

@programminghistorian/technical-team, we are currently updating the guidelines in #2077. So this could be a good moment to introduce these changes.

[ZoeLeBlanc]

Thanks for the heads up @rivaquiroga! Currently I'm planning to email Managing Editors to let them know about this change and then work with them to update their guidelines and templates. But knowing you're already making these changes means I should move faster (pretty much always the case!) since things are already moving.

[ZoeLeBlanc]

Now wondering if I should add updates to the lesson submission template to your draft PR @rivaquiroga or create a new PR 🤔

Probably a new one, unless you think this would make sense to add? Just let me know. Thanks 😊

[rivaquiroga]

A new one sounds fine. The update to the template doesn't require translation..

[ZoeLeBlanc]

@walshbr wondering if we still think this change is necessary now that editors are the ones uploading submission files rather than authors merging directly into ph-submissions? Mostly just wondering at what stage editors would add the metadata back in 🤔

[walshbr]

Most of it doesn't get added until right when it's moved over to the front-facing Jekyll repository, right? So I could see leaving it off the guidelines until that stage.