#docs (2018-12)

Discussions related to https://github.com/cloudposse/docs

Archive: https://archive.sweetops.com/docs/

2018-12-05

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Has the deployed version of the docs been refreshed?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

What ever is in master should be released on the web

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

We cut a release for every merge to master

Jan avatar

Mmmm

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

btw, related to the docs - feel free to open issues there too

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

…with questions, suggestions, etc

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we’ll get those addressed. we have some challenges right now with information architecture and how to organize everything

Jan avatar

Will do

2018-12-12

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Online FlowChart & Diagrams Editor - Mermaid Live Editorattachment image

Simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools. Open source Visio Alternative. Commonly used for explaining your code! Mermaid is a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.

Jan avatar
Deployment Diagram syntax and features

PlantUML deployment diagram syntax: Deployment diagrams are not fully supported within PlantUML. This is a draft version of the language can be subject to changes.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I like that UML is a standard language

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

don’t like we have to compile the images

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

i like that images are shareable though

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

what I like about the mermaid approach is it just uses a JS canvas, so no image generation required

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

easier for static documentation.

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Yea that makes sense

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Igor Rodionov check this out

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
.. ECS made easy

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Igor Rodionov

@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) this is awsome

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Igor Rodionov

we need to create task for frontend to implement that on our docs portal

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Yes will do

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@maarten how did you find mermaidjs?

2018-12-13

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Blog | Documenting Architecture Decisions | Relevance

Context Architecture for agile projects has to be described and defined differently. Not all decisions will be made at once, nor will all of them be done whe…

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

going to take a stab at adopting this

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we’ll track in in cloudposse/docs

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
10:22:44 PM
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
Create Design Decisions Category by osterman · Pull Request #323 · cloudposse/docs

what Start a "Design Decisions" category why Allow us to discuss big decisions in an open, collaborative (via GitHub PRs) and transparent manner references https://github.com/npryce/

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Jan

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we’ve moved all troubleshooting related docs to this category:

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

https://docs.cloudposse.com/faq/ is now strictly for product related q & a

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

https://docs.cloudposse.com/design-decisions/ <– home of future design decisions

2018-12-20

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Document our Semver Strategy · Issue #335 · cloudposse/docs

what it&#39;s not clear how we currently do versioning old strategy Bump patch always unless there was a “known breaking change” Bump minor anytime there was a breaking change We never bumped major…

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Great improvement @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)!

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we have someone starting tomorrow who will help us keep the docs updated.

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Even better

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