feat: the blog posts under `blog/` have no author metadata or reading time estimate — readers cannot identify who wrote an article or gauge reading time before committing

[divyanshim27]

🚀 Problem Statement

The blog/ directory contains Docusaurus markdown posts. Docusaurus supports rich front matter metadata (authors, reading time, tags, description) but the current blog posts appear to use minimal front matter — primarily title, date, and tags.

This creates two user experience gaps:

1. No author attribution — a blog post about "How to Open a Pull Request" doesn't show who wrote it, reducing credibility and community recognition for contributors
2. No reading time estimate — readers can't see "5 min read" before clicking in, reducing content discoverability

Docusaurus 3 (the framework used here, per package.json and docusaurus.config.ts) has built-in reading time estimation and rich author support.

Proposed Fix

1. Enable reading time in docusaurus.config.ts

// docusaurus.config.ts
const config: Config = {
  presets: [
    [
      'classic',
      {
        blog: {
          showReadingTime: true,     // Enable built-in reading time
          readingTime: ({ content, frontMatter, defaultReadingTime }) =>
            defaultReadingTime({ content, options: { wordsPerMinute: 200 } }),
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

2. Create blog/authors.yml for reusable author profiles

# blog/authors.yml
sanjay:
  name: Sanjay K V
  title: Founder, RecodeHive
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-k-v/
  image_url: https://github.com/sanjay-kv.png

# Additional contributors can add themselves here

3. Update existing blog posts to include author front matter

---
title: How to Open a Pull Request
date: 2025-01-15
authors: [sanjay]
tags: [github, opensource, beginners]
description: A step-by-step guide to opening your first pull request on GitHub.
---

This is a low-risk, high-impact change since Docusaurus handles all the rendering automatically once the config and front matter are in place.

Files to Modify / Create

File	Change
docusaurus.config.ts	Enable showReadingTime: true in blog config
blog/authors.yml	New file with contributor profiles
blog/*/index.md	Add authors and description front matter

Suggested labels: enhancement, documentation, good first issue

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Thanks for opening this issue. To help maintainers review it faster, please add the missing details below:

• Clarification on how many blog posts need to be updated with author metadata.
• Specific examples of blog posts that currently lack author metadata.
• Confirmation on whether a suggested format for author profiles is acceptable (e.g., organization, fields).

[divyanshim27]

Hey @maintainers,
Please assign it to me under GSSoC 2026.
/claim /assign /claim-assignment

[sanjay-kv]

this is ai generated and hard to understand the context

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