Use a CSV file to manage publications

[balmas]

(per discussion with @rgorman)

editing the config.json is tricky for people without good JSON skills.

Could we consider having a simple CSV file (or files) that people could put the file metadata in, and then have the code construct the config object automatically from that data?

What do you think @zfletch ?

[zfletch]

That's a good idea, although I would want to keep backwards compatibility and keep supporting config.json, at least until most or all users switched over.

The only tricky part is how to incorporate it into the build. JSON works because it can easily be required and used by a JavaScript file. I think it would be a little more complicated with a CSV.