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Docs

http://inside.gratipay.com/howto/sweep-the-radar

Mission

The mission of the tech team is to support the product team in solving problems in the market.

Scope

• dev
• ops
• PagerDuty
• UptimeRobot
• Heroku
• Digital Ocean
• AWS
• Payday
• Librato
• https://github.com/gratipay/postgres.py
• https://github.com/gratipay/gip.rocks
• https://github.com/gratipay/honcho
• https://github.com/gratipay/environment.py

Roadmap

• Move to Amazon SES (deal with Mandrill changes #515), April 27th Deadline!!
• stop using immutable ids as primary key (use id as primary key instead of username gratipay.com#835)
• other embarrassments

[chadwhitacre]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Peter_principle

Exercise: On a scale of 1 to 10, rate the "conceptual integrity" of Gratipay.

Exercise: Explain, in your own words, the "single, simple set of design principles" that Gratipay conforms to.

[chadwhitacre]

Releasing ...

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Done.

[chadwhitacre]

Let's not forget http://gratipay.readthedocs.io/en/latest/!

[chadwhitacre]

I'm finding pdoc much easier to configure and use during development than Sphinx.

[chadwhitacre]

Alright, still rough edges, though—and getting pdoc working with the submodule I'm adding on #3976 also got it working again in Sphinx.

[chadwhitacre]

Anyone else find add_event kinda confusing? What is "type" supposed to be? 😕

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And how is "action" different from "type"?

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