2025-2026 Techdocs Retrospective

2025-2026 Techdocs Retrospective

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2024-2025 Techdocs Retrospective

2025-2026 Techdocs Work Plan

Accomplishments this Term:

  • Created documentation for on-boarding new members, including:

  • Coordinated and met with the User Documentation sub-team and identified collaboration around configuration documentation for a future release.

  • Improving technical documentation:

    • We enhanced documentation and made other improvements to the new Techdocs site.

    • We expanded and improved API documentation.

    • We improved linkages, expanded descriptions, and reviewed/accepted community feedback to the awesome-archivesspace GitHub repository.

  • Outreach and engagement:

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

    • Presented at ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum 2026

Areas for Potential Improvement:

  • Improve transparency and accuracy of Awesome ArchivesSpace

  • Investigate and plan for improvements to accessibility of technical documentation

  • Discuss centralizing work tasks to be completed across TechDocs spaces (TechDocs Jira board, GitHub repository, Awesome-ArchivesSpace GitHub repository)

Priorities for 2025-2026 Term:

  • Plan for and implement translation project the techdocs content in collaboration with the ArchivesSpace development team and ArchivesSpace community.

  • Work with ArchivesSpace developers to provide feedback for changelog for upcoming releases, based on the feedback and template generated for https://docs.archivesspace.org/release-notes/v400/.

  • Work with the User Documentation sub-team and ArchivesSpace development team in anticipation of configuration feature updates.

  • Continue investigating ways to encourage ArchivesSpace community contributions and commentary on techdocs and Awesome ArchivesSpace.

Leadership for 2026-2027 Term:

Lead: @Laura Schroffel

Vice Lead: TBD

Team Membership Updates:

Rolloffs:

  • @Alexander Duryee

  • @Bonnie Gordon

  • @Michelle Paquette

New Members:

  • TBD