2025-10-21 Documentation Interest Group meeting notes

2025-10-21 Documentation Interest Group meeting notes

 Participants

  • @Morgan McKeehan

  • @Sarah Cogley

  • @Sudha Anand

  • @Juliet Hardesty

  • @Heather Greer Klein

  • @Sarah Proctor

  • @Nic Don Stanton-Roark

 Goals

  • Any questions or topics from DocIG participants?

  • Quick preview of remaining 2025 DocIG mtgs

    • November 18th - mtg will be cancelled (this is the week of DLF Forum)

    • December 16th - recap of DocIG’s main projects and work accomplished in 2025, and discuss what we want to prioritize in 2026

  • Check in/status update about discussion in last month’s mtg 

    • Proposal to relocate Hyrax developer focused Github documentation from Github wiki to documentation folder within the code base.

    • Okay to continue using GitHub wiki as primary location for “tech docs” in the meantime

  • Rest of time: categorizing/prepping tickets in Doc Tasks Board

    •  Any issues that need coordination/feedback with other groups? 

 Discussion notes

  • Additional questions or topics

    • Julie: the roadmaps alignment group discussed doing a community sprint Dec 1 through Dec 5. There may be doc tickets that get picked up during that time.

  • Check in/status update from last month 

    • Proposal to relocate Hyrax developer focused Github documentation from Github wiki to documentation folder within the code base.

      • Mark is going to do a pilot but likely won’t be ready right away

    • Okay to continue using GitHub wiki as primary location for “tech docs” in the meantime

  • Categorizing/prepping tickets in Doc Tasks Board

    • Might rename the To Do column to describe the state of the tickets more clearly

      • Possible names: Triage, Backlog

    • Draft tickets are in a non-ready status and need more details or acceptance criteria

 

 Action items

  • Morgan and Sarah: Organize board and improve labeling system

 Decisions