Keeping tech docs up to date with Daniel the Manual Spaniel
GDS uses the doc-as-code approach to technical documentation, but keeping that content up to date is more of a challenge. Here’s how GDS technical writers and developers fixed the issue.
Easing the process of pull request reviews
On the GOV.UK team, all our changes are peer reviewed using Github's pull request system. If a developer wants to make a change to one of our projects, they need another developer’s approval before the change is accepted into the …
Considering our approach to API iteration
One of the key aspects of how we work is constant iteration. As Government as a Platform progresses into beta with application programming interfaces (API) driven transactional services (rather than pure data access), it’s time to explain how we think …
How GDS uses git and GitHub
Other teams around government frequently ask us about our use of GitHub, and rather than bury those answers in email it seemed time to follow Mike Bracken’s directive and publish (not send) our answers. I’ve made some assumptions here about …
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