Re: Is this the future of technical writing?

[John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

As far as Git goes, there is a ton of information - tutorials, quick
references, videos - out there. A lot of it, however, suffers from the same
ills that you mention. Do a search and spend some time looking at the
results and you're likely to come up with some things that might help.

In my own personal experience, I needed to learn how we were using Git in
my company, what the branches were, what our internal procedures were,
etc., and the only people who could provide that were developers on the
teams I support. It was a good bonding experience to shadow a new user and
have them work together with me so that we both eventually grokked it.


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> Oh sweet baby Jeebus I hope not.  I'm not sure if he's the fellow that
> wrote the base Git documentation or not (http://git-scm.com/documentation
> ),
> but I can tell you, it's atrocious.  I have struggled for the past two
> years to learn my way around Git. I have read and re-read their
> documentation as I struggled to resolve issues I've had with Git, and  as
> many times as I've read it, half of it still doesn't make any sense to me
> because it's so full of jargon and makes huge assumptions about what the
> audience understands.   And I don't think it has anything to do with the
> fact that I'm a technical writer and not a developer. because many of our
> developers and QA engineers seem to have trouble doing more than the basic
> functions in Git.  We rely a lot on our couple of in-house Git experts to
> troubleshoot problems.
>
> Honestly, I don't care what tool chain you used to write your doc, if the
> doc that you produce is not helpful to your users, then you've wasted
> everyone's time.  Yours as a writer, and your audience's as a reader.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@chacon/living-the-future-of-technical-writing-2f368bd0a272
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
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