Track maintainers can try out WIP exercises in the editor

We’ve just merged a PR that allows track maintainers to try out WIP exercises in the online editor.

To be recognized as a track maintainer, one needs to both:

  1. Have the maintainer role (we manage this manually on a per-user basis)
  2. Be part of the track’s GitHub team (also managed manually on a per-user basis)

N.B. a WIP exercise is one where its "status" property is set to "wip" in its track config.json entry
N.B.B. using the CLI might work, but I’ve not tested that scenario

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Thank you so much for this, @ErikSchierboom!

I thought the [Work in Progress] tag was a really nice touch:

And I love being able to see the track tree as it will be once we get these exercises over the finish line:

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@ErikSchierboom Can I use this to enable all of the Ballerina track exercises for a final review before going live?

You don’t need to, as maintainers can already see beta/active exercises for a track: https://exercism.org/tracks/ballerina/exercises

Ok, I still see a 404 for that page. Do I need to make a PR that sets the track to active:
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No please don’t! We’re not yet ready to launch I think.

Could you try again?

Works now thank you!!