Docs are not optional

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

On this week’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Kathy Korevec, former Senior Director of Product at GitHub, and now Vercel’s Head of Product. Docs play an essential role in GitHub Actions, and Gerhard’s experience has proven that. Building, testing, and shipping code with GitHub Actions works better because of their excellent docs. However, the docs that Kathy pictures are not what you are imagining. She explains it best in her post, Maybe it’s time we re-think docs, which is what started this whole conversation.

The bottom line is, just as you wouldn’t ship untested code, shipping code without documentation is not optional. Today’s conversation with Kathy explains why.

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Featuring:

• Kathy Korevec – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Maybe it’s time we re-think docs
• Kathy’s Philosophy
• Chasing challenges to ship developer solutions
• Reading list for product people
• Leadership CI
• GitHub Docs repository
• GitHub Repo Sync

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!