Docs as Code: Documentation Management Inspired by Software Development

September 16, 2020

Tools and techniques used in software development can also be applied for documentation management:

• Storage and issue management using GitHub
• Automated quality checks and continuous publishing using Netlify
• Editing and collaboration support
• Release strategies

We will analyze a working Docs as Code setup that will be freely available on GitHub afterward so attendees will be able to fork it, work with it, gain a deeper understanding and apply these concepts into their own documentation projects. Although any text-based document format works, we will use a mixed DITA and Markdown project in the demo setup.

Presented by: Alex Jitianu has been working for more than 10 years as a software architect for Syncro Soft Ltd., the producer of the popular Oxygen XML Editor. During this period, his main focus has been in the development of technical documentation tools and DITA specific support.