dalemyers

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by dalemyers 9y ago
An alternative for this case for you might be the enterprise version of StackOverflow? We have that internally at the company, but it's not particularly friendly for the use cases our small team has.
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by dalemyers 9y ago
We can't unfortunately. With Github it's all or nothing. We need to enforce code reviews for all merges for certain branches anyway for legal reasons.
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by dalemyers 9y ago
> With well set up CI and automated builds, would you need this documentation at all? We have that. But how would you know that we have that without documentation telling you? How would you know where to find the resulting builds or to c
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by dalemyers 9y ago
Good to know that Github wikis aren't searchable. We have a Github Enterprise installation and were considering using the wiki for our longer, detailed documentation, but lack of search is a no go I think.
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by dalemyers 9y ago
We actually used Confluence but moved away from it. The interface was difficult to use, it was slow, the search wasn't great, etc.
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by dalemyers 9y ago
>The only problem is that it is yet another tool. That's one of the main horrors we are trying to avoid. We'd like to have a single location to track both kinds of documentation ideally, but realise we are probably going to hav
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by dalemyers 9y ago
We already have this, the problem is more for processes. Things like "How do I create a build from my commit?". We have dedicated documentation which explains how the build system works in it's entirety as markdown files, but
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by dalemyers 9y ago
Yes! (I'm the dev who implemented them in Outlook Mobile). I think you are thinking of COM add-ins though, which were significantly more powerful, but a security risk. The new JS based approach, which has been in place for a few years,