As the end of the year draws near, we’d like to thank you for following our status reports and contributing to our documentation, user experience, and design. This is the last status report of 2019. Happy Holidays, see you in 2020! 

Documentation 

Article in ISTC Communicator: platformOS Developer Portal

In this article for ISTC Communicator, an authoritative journal for technical communicators distributed to ISTC members and Communicator magazine subscribers, we share some insights on building our UKTC Award winning developer documentation site discussing topics like content, strategy, workflow, and community. 

This article was originally published in ISTC Communicator, Winter 2019.

Content production

• IN REVIEW Article: Building Our Documentation Site on platformOS — Part 4: Implementation
• UPDATED Uploading Files Directly to Amazon S3 Using Uppy - added clarification based on user request 
• PLANNED Add to docs: string conversion workaround
• PLANNED Update platformOS tags: add path for module
• PLANNED Add more info on "graphql" pOS tag
• PLANNED Update topic about spam protection
• PLANNED Check example for graphql tag 
• PLANNED Remove roadmap pages from search results
• PLANNED Update GraphQL queries documentation - feeds 
• PLANNED Extend GraphQL queries documentation  

Improvements, fixes

• FIXED broken link checker
• FIXED broken links
• UPDATED disabled lazy in contributors’ avatars
• UPDATED Grouped Release Notes by year as a preparation for 2020

UX

Research

• Developer Experience - Interview and pOS Test: Thank you for all the subscriptions so far! We start the interviews this week and come back to you in the new year to carry on with the interviews. If you’d like to subscribe you can still do it via this link.

Design and Development

• NEW Partner Portal - Module Marketplace listing page wireframes and designs based on the design system
• NEW Soften the uniqueness validation on Page slug - show a warning in pos-cli logs instead of preventing deploy
• NEW GraphQL: speed up filtering by related models
• NEW Add value_int, value_float and value_boolean properties to GraphQL JSONB resolver (for example admin_page metadata)
• IN REVIEW Allow updating multiple objects at once via GraphQL 
• IN PROGRESS Partner Portal - DNS API expose domain destroy function
• IN PROGRESS Partner Portal - Implementation of the Non-Technical onboarding journey

Improvements, fixes

• NEW Fixing attachments: direct URL
• IN PROGRESS Image export and import

Release Notes

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note, Dec 16, 2019 — Performance improvements, fixes, GraphQL improvements