Treating docs as a product
When documentation lives as an afterthought, it shows. Pages drift out of date, examples break quietly, and release notes scatter across a dozen places no one can find. The fix is not a weekend cleanup. It is a decision to treat docs the way you treat any product people depend on: someone owns it, it has standards, and it gets maintained on purpose.
That is the decision I made when the docs came to the Developer Relations team at the end of 2025. Not "let's tidy this up," but "this is ours now, and we are accountable for whether a developer can actually build from it."
The work, in the repository
The honest record of what a team does to a codebase lives in its git history, so that is where the story starts. Comparing the six months before the handoff to the six months since:
