@santosguillamot and I thought this morning that maybe it would make more sense to not open the “doc issue” in each of our PRs, but once all the PRs of that feature have been merged and we are writing the Final Implementation (and creating the demo video) in the FD.
We think we can make a better summary of the feature and the things that need to be documented as part of the Final Implementation, and it would be much more useful for you.
What do you think guys?
I agree. 
I think this will simplify the understanding of the features to document them
Awesome! Let’s try it then as see how it goes 
@juanma, @mburridge: At some point @santosguillamot and I proposed to be the ones helping you to document the next features because we want to understand what you need.
If you still want, we can do that for the Google Ad Manager package.
So should we be approaching one of you two and not the developer who implemented the feature when we want to document a feature and need more clarification/information?
@luisherranz @SantosGuillamot @mburridge I’ve tried to wrap up here the resources and conversations we’ve had regarding the documentation, specially those about the workflow for documenting new features
The main site affected by features documentation is
Besides this one, we also manage the following sites
Guidelines for API reference docs
in the WIKI of the API Reference docs repo there are the Guidelines for API reference docs with the criteria followed to document every piece of information (syntax, arguments, types, is mandatory, …). These guidelines takes into account the constraints we have for working with gitbook.
Code Releases
Code <-> Documentation workflow
In the WIKI of the Docs repo is documented the Code Released workflow agreed w/ Dev team to document features after they’re released
How can we improve the FDs process? → 
Mario’s proposal
Regarding this conversation, the most interesting proposal from a documentation point of view is having a Final Implementation section in every Feature Discussion that has been released
From the Final Implementation section proposal I’ve marked w/ 
those that are most interesting for DevRel for features documentation
Pull Request → Link to the PR where it was implemented. Requirements → For example, for the @frontity/yoast package, you have to install the Yoast plugin ^14.0 Functionalities → List of the final functionalities that were included in the final implementation, with a detailed explanation of each one: how it works, how to use it (install a package? add a new setting?) and a code example/screenshot/quick video if relevant. API changes
Demo → Full video explaining how to use the feature and its functionalities. This can be added afterwards. We could even include a CodeSandbox like we did with the wp comments. Code <-> Documentation workflow → Yes, as agreed on January 2021
This will affect anyone modifying the code of the themes/packages as these comments are required to pass the PR checking and being able to merge the PR’s
From here we can have a meeting if you want so we can clarify some final points.
For me the key things that would help DevRel to document new features are
The creation of. The Final Implementation section and content suggested by Mario
Following this workflow:
The PRs of that feature have been merged and the Feature has been released
The Final Implementation section is added to the FD
The type: code release issue is created in the API Reference repo
What do you think?
Thanks for the wrap up Juanma! Pretty useful
In my opinion it seems we are aligned, so I think we can organize ourselves asynchronously. We have already started working with this workflow, but it doesn’t apply to old features. So let’s keep an eye and see what could be improved.
Excellent!
I’ve added a link to the wrap up to the Opening Post: Code <-> Documentation workflow
We must remember to update the wiki once we see if the new proposed process makes sense.
Apart from that, my only suggestion is to create a different Template for the Final Implementation, based on the Implementation Proposal template, but with the new questions suggested by @juanma.
The DevRel team will add or remove sections from that Template over time when they start doing real work and learn what they need and what they don’t.
What do you think?
Yes, that was our idea.
Actually, maybe you could do it with Mario and the developer who implemented the feature because the idea was that Mario would learn about your needs to incorporate them in our workflow, and the developer answers your technical questions.
What do you think @santosguillamot?
By the way, you mentioned that you wanted to work on the Google Ads Manager package, which was created by David, but you reached Michal, who is the supporter this week.
I guess we have to make a decision about that as well: Should you work with the original developer or the supporter?
In my opinion, it should be the original developer. Actually, sometimes times there will be more than one developer involved, so you should reach whoever wrote the Final Implementation.
I don’t fully understand it. We have this Final Implementation template, that is the one Juanma was referring to. It is also here as markdowwn. Do you mean to change it? I agree it will need some iteration.
Yes, sure. I can be there to analyze the process and the developer in charge of the feature to solve any technical question.
I agree it will be better to contact the Developer who wrote the Final Implementation, who should be the one with more information about the feature.
Oh, I thought it was Michal because he raised the issue in the docs repo. Also because Michal announced he’d merged it.
Maybe we should have some easy way of identifying attribution.
That case is strange. Maybe I didn’t write the final implementation because I was on summer holidays? I don’t remember. The one who writes the FI is usually someone who has been involved on the implementation, so reaching the author should be enough. 
Anyways, for this specific case, yes, it’s better if you contact me instead of Michal.
Haha, sorry. I meant once you start working on documenting new features again 
There is another thing we need to work on regarding the Code <-> Documentation workflow: major releases.
We have the first one: @frontity/google-analytics version 2: Google Analytics package - #17 by luisherranz
We need to talk about what to do in these cases.
The DevRel team needs to decide:
And we should agree on what the Dev team should do in this cases:
We had a meeting today to check the current status of the Code <> Docs workflow
The agreed workflow has been updated at Code Releases · frontity/api-reference Wiki · GitHub
The conclusions of the meeting are:
@luisherranz this a difficult thing to manage with Gitbook right now.
Versions in Gitbook work at a site level and they cannot work at a section level
A good first approach to deal with these different major versions would be:
@frontity/google-analytics latest one@frontity/google-analytics@1.x previous onesSounds good 
I notice that sometimes more than 2 people are assigned for review of a docs PR (typically 1 dev and 1 devrel).
It can easily happen that both have worked on reviewing and correcting the same issues as it just did in wp-comments package docs by juanmaguitar · Pull Request #21 · frontity/api-reference · GitHub
My question is:
Should we assign developers to review the docs PR? Do you see a clear benefit there? It’s an honest question - I don’t know have a strong opinion about it myself.
If the answer above is “yes”, then I would suggest that we only assign one person to review a PR at a time. Once a PR is reviewed by 1 team member, the original creator can assign it to another team member. As the original PR creator is in charge of merging the PR once they deem it ready, there is no risk of having the reviewer merge unfinished changes.
I’m aware that this process might at first seem a bit slower, but I think it’s not the case. I think that it fits rather nicely into the “blocked by default” mindset and just makes the process a bit more async.
Let me know your thoughts
Yes, we will always need a review from a developer to assure we’re being accurate in our explanations and to review we’re not forgetting anything critical
The review from the other DevRel member is to check that our explanations are enough to understand the feature (taking the role of someone who read the docs about the feature for the first time). Also is a way to give visibility about the features documented
I think you’re right. We can assign first the review to the developer for accuracy and once we have his review we can add the other DevRel member as reviewer to check form, grammar and ways of explaining the feature
@mburridge what do you think?