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Re:My blog is now generated by Google Docs by leesalminen on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:16PM (#23137561)
We’ve been using a shared Google Docs folder to manage our app’s release notes. We parse the folder in reverse chronological order, paginate 5 at a time and use their doc to HTML converter API. We then cache in Redis for performance. Works great and keeps the development team away from having to update it. Product/support can edit to their content!
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Re:My blog is now generated by Google Docs by shrikant on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:39AM (#23141418)
You mean your app's release notes go beyond just "- Bug fixes and misc. enhancements"? Good on you!

(Sorry for the seemingly drive-by, this really annoys me in Play Store update release notes!)

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Re:My blog is now generated by Google Docs by leesalminen on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:39AM (#23143280)
Oh yes. We used to be lazy developers and do the bare minimum. We sell a SaaS to the SMB field and the feedback we got was that they wanted to know _exactly_ what we were changing in the app. So now we produce full sentence (or paragraph) explanations for every JIRA card that gets into production for our users, including links to updated documentation, training videos, screenshots, etc.
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Re:My blog is now generated by Google Docs by spondyl on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:49PM (#23138730)
That's actually a really cool idea. We currently use a rendered Markdown doc but as a team who can forget and then have to do another commit, this would remove the friction required.
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