Atlassian Doc Sprint Worldwide Event Begins Today

Today marks the first day of Atlassian’s Doc Sprint event. Writers from around the world will set aside time over the next two days to focus on creating and updating reference materials that support Atlassian products, such as JIRA.

Atlassian’s technical writing team created the Doc Sprint event to enable content creators to collaborate and create reference materials in support of Atlassian products. This years’ Doc Sprint event focuses on ‘Quick Start’ and ‘How To’ Guides for Atlassian products. As one of the content creators who will be participating in the event, I’ve decided to focus on revamping my JIRA on Linux Administrators Guide (“The Guide”).

My goal for the Doc Sprint will be to revamp the last release of The Guide, into two separate new references, the JIRA on Debian Linux Admin Reference Guide, and the JIRA on Linux Admin Reference Guide. The latter of the two Guides will detail installing JIRA on application servers platforms running a variety of Linux distributions, including Fedora and CentOS.

In addition to including more screenshots and illustrations, the two new Guides will feature links to screencasts. Screencasts are a great visual aide when “seeing” is the best means of communicating a concept, idea or procedure. If you are not familiar with Screencasts, check out Don McAllister’s ScreenCastOnline.com.

I expect to post the first release of the JIRA on Debian Linux Admin Reference Guide over the coming weekend. The more comprehensive and broader JIRA on Linux Admin Reference Guide will be available by year-end. As always, your feedback and suggestions toward improving The Guides are always welcome.