Lina Wolf
At the start of 2021, the TYPO3 Documentation Team initiated the concept of a "Sweeping Week". This is based on the idea of Kehrwoche where people take turns to ensure the orderliness of common property.
Maintaining Many Repositories
The Documentation Team maintains 4 core documentation manuals and 12 active tutorials and guides. Additionally there are inactive manuals and guides, and repositories for special interest groups, initiatives and technical purposes. We also manage several TYPO3 extensions. In total, we currently have 76 GitHub repos, each with their own corresponding open issues and pull requests. Some of these get forgotten or can languish because the team is busy working on other areas of documentation.
What Happens During Sweeping Week?
The Sweeping Week is one week every month, where a member of the team dedicates time to the housekeeping of our documentation repositories.
Activities include:
- Reviewing open issues
- Triaging reported problems
- Chasing up members who said they would investigate something
- Asking for reviews on open pull requests
- Merging pull requests that have been approved.
- Backporting merged issues
It’s important to note that this person is not responsible for doing the actual work. It is their role to ensure action is taking place.
Effort Is Rewarded
Lina Wolf has committed herself to the task for this year. During the last week of each month she investigates all those "difficult to solve" issues and pull requests that would otherwise pile up. This had brought down the number of open tickets significantly. For example, in January 2021, our largest manual TYPO3 Explained had 76 open issues, many of them laying stale for years. As of April 2021, we are down to 13.
