First Release about adoptingerlang

[ferd]

want drawings added?

[tsloughter]

For authors we'll want to add a bios page.

[tsloughter]

Regarding drawings, that is up to you. If they aren't directly related to the content, like the one drawing, we don't need to hold up a first release.

[ferd]

Decided to delay the PDF for the first release. I'm checking the PDF font task as well since that gets "cancelled" by not doing the PDF.

[tsloughter]

Should we try deciding on initial chapters soon?

[ferd]

yeah it would make sense.
If we want to drop in a chapter a month, then picking at least one that is past the set-up content would be good. Then we add as we go. The question is whether we release in order, in order per section (i.e. we're free to do any of the 3 sections, as long as they are in relative order), or just random.

[tsloughter]

I think in order per section.

Mostly because I'd like to get the Docker section out as soon as it can be ready after Docker 19.03 is released. I would think it'll be released in weeks not months.. but who knows. And it would go along with the Release section.

It requires having service_discovery in a state that it builds and runs. Just have to decide how much of it needs to work before releasing those chapters. I'd think just branching and using it just in a state that erldns works so dns queries can hit it and it uses static dns records would be fine for describing releases and docker.

I can turn my attention from kubernetes to development sections now so maybe we can have some of those ready before production sections go out.

[ferd]

that works for me. We've got a bunch in the first section so that's fine. people will probably like a changelog somewhere or RSS feed for new chapters though

[tsloughter]

Adding a changelog page is a good idea. There is a way to do an rss feed with hugo https://gohugo.io/templates/rss/ but I haven't looked to see if it is easy to do what we are doing with it.

[ferd]

Changelog + twitter / slack announcements could do the job fine

[tsloughter]

Should we do the first couple sections of the Development chapter and maybe the first two of Production?

[ferd]

Yeah that sounds good.

[ferd]

@tsloughter fwiw the bit at the bottom of this page: https://5d460c4ca9b13392999a4385--inspiring-shannon-000ae0.netlify.com/docs/development/otp_applications/ where there's broken markdown is actually properly-formatted org-mode stuff, and it seems to be a kind of conversion bug between formats.

[tsloughter]

@ferd ok. I can look at that.

Besides that and I can try to get next/prev links done by tomorrow is there anything else we need to wait on?

[tsloughter]

I think with my latest 2 PRs all of these except the "style and tone" one can be marked complete and we are set for a first release.

[tsloughter]

Closing.