DRAFT 2024-2025 Techdocs Retrospective

DRAFT 2024-2025 Techdocs Retrospective

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2023-2024 Techdocs Retrospective

2024-2025 Techdocs Work Plan

Accomplishments this Term:

  • Rebuilding and documenting processes:

    • Revisited our charge and clarified roles and responsibilities, including how the sub-team works with the ArchivesSpace program team.

    • We implemented a Jira board for TechDocs issues, so we now have a central system for tracking and managing work. Additionally, we defined procedures for moving tasks forward.

  • Improving technical documentation:

    • We supported the ArchivesSpace program team in migrating the Techdocs website to Astro.

    • Post-migration to Astro, we have enhanced documentation and made other improvements to the new Techdocs site.

    • We expanded and improved API documentation.

  • Outreach and engagement:

    • We monitored listservs and other community forums to identify gaps in Techdocs.

Areas for Potential Improvement:

  • Increase engagement with Awesome ArchivesSpace

  • Improve documentation of GitHub workflows

  • Enhance asynchronous and between-meeting communication

Priorities for 2025-2026 Term:

  • Create documentation for onboarding new members, including how to complete tasks such as submitting pull requests.

  • Review techdocs to identify where further clarity is needed and where examples could be improved, creating Jira tickets to manage these updates.

  • Identify and implement strategies to encourage the ArchivesSpace community to active use and update techdocs and Awesome ArchivesSpace

  • Establish a changelog page on techdocs, which will serve as a comprehensive record for new ArchivesSpace relases.

  • Explore the possibility of working with the User Documentation sub-team to identify opportunities for collaboration.

Leadership for 2024-2025 Term:

Lead: @Schmidt, Corey

Vice Lead: TBD