Remove members.json (#619)

### Summary

With the removal of qiskit.org, we no longer need to support
`members.json`.

This PR removes that file, and all the code related to generating it.

docs/project_overview.md

@@ -109,24 +109,17 @@ https://github.com/mickahell/qiskit-ecosystem_template.
 We store each member of the ecosystem as a TOML file under
 [`ecosystem/resources/members`](https://github.com/qiskit-community/ecosystem/blob/main/ecosystem/resources/members);
 these are the files you should edit when adding / updating members to the
-ecosystem. Access to this file is handled through the
+ecosystem. Access to these files is handled programmatically through the
 [`DAO`](https://github.com/qiskit-community/ecosystem/blob/main/ecosystem/daos/dao.py)
 class.
 
-The qiskit.org page pulls information from the compiled
-[`members.json`](https://github.com/qiskit-community/ecosystem/blob/main/ecosystem/resources/members.json))
-file. This file should be compiled automatically by an action on pushing to
-`main`, but you can also compile it locally (e.g. for testing) using
+To generate the webpage from the TOML files, run:
 
 ```sh
-python -m manager members recompile
+tox -e website
 ```
 
-You shouldn't edit `members.json` manually.
-
-If you somehow get a merge conflict in `members.json`, don't try to manually
-resolve the conflict. Instead, merge the branch, then run `python -m manager members
-recompile` and add the file to resolve the conflict.
+Then open `website/index.html` in your browser.
 
 ### Tests
 

ecosystem/cli/members.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class CliMembers:
     Each public method of this class is CLI command
     and arguments for method are options/flags for this command.
 
-    Ex: `python manager.py members recompile --body="<SOME_MARKDOWN>"`
+    Ex: `python manager.py members update_badges`
     """
 
     def __init__(self, root_path: Optional[str] = None):
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ def __init__(self, root_path: Optional[str] = None):
         self.dao = DAO(path=self.resources_dir)
         self.logger = logger
 
-    def recompile(self):
-        """Recompile `members.json` from human-readable files."""
-        self.dao.compile_json()
-
     def add_repo_2db(
         self,
         repo_name: str,

ecosystem/cli/website.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def __init__(self, root_path: Optional[str] = None):
         self.dao = DAO(path=self.resources_dir)
 
     def build_website(self):
-        """Generates the ecosystem web page reading `members.json`."""
+        """Generates the ecosystem web page reading the TOML files."""
         environment = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader("ecosystem/html_templates/"))
         projects = self.dao.storage.read()
         projects_sorted = sorted(

ecosystem/daos/dao.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 File structure:
 
     root_path
-    ├── members.json  # compiled file; don't edit manually
     └── members
         └── repo-name.toml
 """
@@ -88,7 +87,6 @@ def __init__(self, path: str):
         """
         self.storage = TomlStorage(path)
         self.labels_json_path = Path(path, "labels.json")
-        self.compiled_json_path = Path(path, "members.json")
 
     def write(self, repo: Repository):
         """
@@ -160,28 +158,6 @@ def update_labels(self, labels: list[str]):
                 sorted(new_label_list, key=lambda x: x["name"]), labels_file, indent=4
             )
 
-    def compile_json(self):
-        """
-        Dump database to JSON file for consumption by qiskit.org
-        Needs this structure:
-
-        { tier: {  # e.g. Main, Community
-            index: repo  # `repo` is data from repo-name.toml
-        }}
-
-        """
-        data = self.storage.read()
-
-        out = {}
-        for repo in data.values():
-            if repo.tier not in out:
-                out[repo.tier] = {}
-            index = str(len(out[repo.tier]))
-            out[repo.tier][index] = repo.to_dict()
-
-        with open(self.compiled_json_path, "w") as file:
-            json.dump(out, file, indent=4)
-
     def add_repo_test_result(self, repo_url: str, test_result: TestResult) -> None:
         """
         Adds test result to repository.

ecosystem/resources/README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-Ecosystem database
-==================
+Ecosystem data files
+====================
 
-This folder contains the actual ecosystem data, including the data that appears
-on [qiskit.org/ecosystem](https://qiskit.org/ecosystem).
+This folder contains the actual ecosystem data.
 
 If you want to edit or remove something, go to the [`members`](./members)
 folder and edit or delete the TOML file for that repo. On pushing to `main`, a
-GitHub action should recompile the JSON files that
-[qiskit.org/ecosystem](https://qiskit.org/ecosystem) reads from.
+GitHub action should recompile and publish the website.