Can you expand a little bit on the tools that you and your team create for the newsroom and journalists? Who comes up with the ideas? How long does it typically take to go from idea to execution?
Finally — are there any live examples that you're particularly proud of?
I am a developer at The Washington Post and I help build newsroom facing tools. I also am the Chair of the DC chapter of ACM and produce a podcast called DC Tech Stories.
I have been here since Jan so I am not a big part of the priority setting for our team. Some of our work are hot fixes and are deployed ALL the time, some take months of prep, planning, and dedicated sprints, I would say a 50/50 mix of those two things.
I am a developer at The Washington Post and I help build newsroom facing tools. I also am the Chair of the DC chapter of ACM and produce a podcast called DC Tech Stories.
Depends on the team and tool (can I copy and past that to every answer hahah). Most of the time it's branch off master, fix bug, deploy to QA/testing site, test again, get your PR approved by whatever teams are involved, deploy to master, deal with the cache :)
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Can you expand a little bit on the tools that you and your team create for the newsroom and journalists? Who comes up with the ideas? How long does it typically take to go from idea to execution?
Finally — are there any live examples that you're particularly proud of?
Thanks for doing this AMA!
This is our latest too and I think it is AWESOME: washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/09/1...
I have been here since Jan so I am not a big part of the priority setting for our team. Some of our work are hot fixes and are deployed ALL the time, some take months of prep, planning, and dedicated sprints, I would say a 50/50 mix of those two things.
What's the process for getting a hot fix into production?
Depends on the team and tool (can I copy and past that to every answer hahah). Most of the time it's branch off master, fix bug, deploy to QA/testing site, test again, get your PR approved by whatever teams are involved, deploy to master, deal with the cache :)