Developing Processes and Tools for Maintaining OpenMRS Documentation
Primary Mentor | @Jennifer Antilla |
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Backup Mentor | @Herbert Yiga |
Assigned to | TBD |
Primary Objective:
Develop a clear process and tools to help community members maintain OpenMRS documentation
Project Description
We often hear that our documentation is out-of-date or duplicative. Our garden has become somewhat overcome with weeds and it's hard to find what is needed. In 2019, we worked with a technical writer to re-organize our Wiki and we're in the process of implementing those recommendations. We now have the garden designed and we're starting to put everything in a location that makes sense for our audiences. There's still weeding to be done and to avoid having a chaotic garden again, we need some guidance and tools that will help us maintain our documentation and keep it relevant.
Possible outputs that could be developed include: mechanisms to help identify, prioritize, and schedule documentation improvements; conventions and templates that are easy to access and follow; a style guide for our Wiki; etc. One example, would be coming up with a convention for labeling wiki pages that our outdated or pages in the wrong location. A Confluence macro could be used to display all such tagged pages as an automatic work queue for documentation improvement. Another example would be to create a page or process to identify all pages under “active projects” that haven’t been modified for > 1 year as candidates to be archived.
Skills Needed
Knowledge on developing documentation processes and Standard Operating Procedures
Knowledge on techniques and approaches to reduce entropy in open source documentation
Objectives at the end of the Assignment :
Processes and operating procedures on how to continuously update user documentation in a seamless manner
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