2017-2018 API Working Group Retrospective

What went well

What could have gone better

Early enthusiasm for the group; improving the API documentation is something that many involved in TAC and the broader community are interested in
Submitted a pull request to fix a bug that was causing numerous issues in the API documentation: https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/1201

The group had several false starts and never really got off the ground in the way that participants wanted
Finding participants early on proved difficult; those that did get involved were involved in several other TAC teams which could have contributed to lack of ability to devote time to the API documentation working group
The group would have benefited from having more participants from the broader community or the ArchivesSpace development team
The scope of the group could have been clearer/narrower, which may have included: focus only on several specific endpoints and improve the documentation for those, make additional improvements to the automated Slate documentation code, add a new sub-page to the technical documentation giving example requests and expected responses