October Dosu Drop: Your Technical Ghost Writer

It’s October, so please indulge me:

Got cobwebs on your API docs?

Haunted by distraction goblins, gobblin’ up all your time with repetitive questions?

Code agent looking more like one of Romero’s ambling zombies than Frankenstein’s eloquent monster?

Dosu is ready to help! We’ve launched new features this month that will help bring your documentation to life (but not in a way that makes it travel the globe seeking revenge against you).

Ask Dosu to create a document from anywhere

Ever been struck with a great doc idea while chatting with Dosu? Now you can tell the Dosu agent to create a new document from any channel, including Slack. Just say something like “@Dosu write me a document about proton pack stream safety.”

New login methods

No GitHub? No problem. We’ve added support for signing in with Google and Azure accounts. We’ll continue to expand to more OAuth providers in the future. If you’ve got one in mind, let us know on Discord.

Diagram support

For Halloween this year, Dosu is going as a Mermaid… diagram. Our documentation editor now supports adding diagrams by using mermaid code blocks. For example, try something like:

```mermaid
---
title: Why use Dosu?
---
graph TB
Code --> Docs
Docs --> Code
```

Document lifecycle improvements

We’ve rolled out two new quality-of-life changes for managing document lifecycles. First, documents are now Published by default, rather than Drafts. Dosu will begin referencing your doc and keeping it up to date from the moment you push “Save.” This applies to documents generated by Dosu as well, unless you change it in your settings. If you want to downgrade a doc to a Draft, we’ve also added an option in the drop-down menu.

Second, you can now archive documents when they are no longer relevant. Dosu won’t reference or update archived documents, but any hyperlinks to them will continue to work (and show a warning that the doc is archived). You still have the option to permanently delete them if you prefer — you’ll find that in the drop down menu as well.

OSS Spotlight: KubeCon

We’ve been working closely with the CNCF to support their projects, and I’m excited to meet the community at KubeCon next month. You can hear me talk about how we built Dosu for enterprises and open source maintainers on Tuesday, Nov. 11th at 2:30 EST. If you’re brave enough, legend has it that if we all say “@Dosu” three times into a mirror, it will appear to answer questions about the CNCF.

That’s all for this month! As always we welcome your feedback and feature ideas — let us hear from you on Discord.

Devin Stein

Founder and CEO