In open source, all sorts of interesting connections happen. In open source documentation, an even more narrowly defined group of folks connect the dots for others. Recently I was interviewed by Mirantis, an OpenStack services startup, about my involvement with OpenStack documentation. They’re doing a series of interviews with the technical leads in OpenStack. We […]
Now You Can Learn the Lingo of GitHub for Docs
An article I wrote on GitHub for the docslikecode.com website: What if you could use GitHub, static site generators, and Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) for our documentation? I imagine you can track your backlog and get some metrics on the quality with their nice contributor graphs. I bet you could measure “docs drift” to […]
Learn Git and GitHub Now with Three Doc Projects
I like to point people to GitHub Pages when they want to learn Git. How about three options for learning Git and GitHub with doc projects?