The Atlassian technical writers and friends have just held our fourth doc sprint, and it was the biggest and best yet. We had sprinters sprinkled round the world. We worked on site in Sydney, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Remote sprinters joined us online via HipChat and the wiki. We wrote words, we wrote code, we solved chocolate anagrams. Confluence 4.3 just wouldn’t be the same without our tutorials! Cool. So what’s a doc sprint again? A doc sprint is an event where people get together to write tutorials and often code. The sprinters work together for a given period of time, usually two to three days, on a specific set of documentation. They tap into each other’s skills, get into the creative zone, have fun and write haikus. The outcome is a number of top-quality tutorials, plenty of learning, and a bunch of new acquaintances. The August 2012 sprint This sprint focused on developing plugin tutorials for the Confluence developer documentation. In particular, we knew that our existing tutorials had decayed over time. They needed updating, and we also wanted some shiny new tutorials for Confluence 4.3. So we built a wish list, invited some sprinters, and set up the doc sprint schedule. For the first time ever, we held a sprint in Amsterdam. One brave soul joined us in the Atlassian Amsterdam office. Thanks Andreas! I hope many more people will make it for the next sprint. The chocolate in Amsterdam is to die for. The people A grand total of 35 people took part in this doc sprint. That includes 12 developers and writers from outside Atlassian, as well as 23 Atlassians. We had 18 sprinters in the Sydney office, 7 in San Francisco, 1 in Amsterdam, and 9 in remote locations: the UK, Israel, Germany, and the US. Kudos to the two sprinters who travelled big miles to join us. Swapnil Ogale flew from Melbourne to Sydney, and Andreas Spall (aevolu) came from Northern Germany to Amsterdam. A big thank you also to the other developers and writers from outside Atlassian: Anne Aloysious, Bridget Rooney, Ellis Pratt (Cherryleaf), Carole Snitzer (Gliffy), Daniel Green (WikiStrat), Laura Kolker (AppFusions), David Simpson (AppFusions), Ellen Feaheny (AppFusions), Nils Bier (K15t Software), Johannes Egenolf (K15t Software). Swapnil Ogale wrote this post: Experiencing the Atlassian Doc Sprint – Aug 2012. The results – 30 new and updated tutorials We now have 11 new and 19 updated Confluence tutorials – a great resource for plugin developers, nicely timed with the release of Confluence 4.3. New Confluence tutorials: Working with the Tasks REST API in Confluence Sending Emails in a Plugin Posting notifications in Confluence Preformatted Table – Example of a User Macro Panel Preformatted with Specific Colours – Example of a User Macro Adding an Option to the Editor Insert Menu Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to Confluence Writing Integration Tests for your Plugin (to be published after review) Altering Confluence page output using a Pipeline Transformer module (to be published after completion, some time in October) Writing [...]
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