Hey! I promised a different status report this month, but it could not be.

This has been the third month in a row focused exclusively on writing and reviewing docs. I know, I know, that is literally my job… but game dev is calling :doomguy-grin:

The good news is that everything is now written, and we are in the final review phase!

Summary of Work Done

• Writing Content

  :task-docs-user: Wrote and published the long-overdue Shoestring guides for deploying and maintaining Symbol nodes.

• Review

  :task-docs-dev: Zero delivered the final Symbol tutorials, covering Atomic Swaps and Cross-Chain Swaps. All tutorials have now been reviewed and published, and work has begun on updating the legacy NEM docs. Here are a few work-in-progress screenshots:

  

  

  :task-docs-dev: CryptoBeliever finalized the Symbol OpenAPI specification and migrated it to the main Symbol repository alongside the rest of the codebase. The spec was also upgraded to a more modern renderer.

  🇯🇵 Daoka provided the Japanese translation for all documentation pages, an impressive amount of work, seriously.

• Daruma

  :xymcoin: In between the endless stream of reviews, I managed to sneak in a single day to work on the Game Design Document. That was it. No time for more this month.

• Management

  💻 Very little to report here. I spent a morning reviewing the list of pending issues across the docs and the OpenAPI spec, updating and reprioritizing them.

• Site configuration

  ⚙️ It had been a while since I last worked on the site’s code, and I appreciated the chance 😄 I created the skeleton for the upcoming NEM docs site so Zero had something to build on. We also integrated a new OpenAPI renderer, Scalar, replacing the aging Swagger UI. Finally, I resolved the remaining documentation warnings and loose ends. The documentation branch is now ready to be merged into the main Symbol repository.

• Learning

  🎓 Normally this section summarizes time spent studying new technologies, but this month was different. Within the Syndicate, there is a lot of knowledge that may seem unrelated to our day-to-day work, but still represents significant effort and expertise. We decided to start a series of internal talks to share it, an initiative we are calling cross-pollination 🐝.

  I gave the first session on video compression, the topic of my PhD. A few people told me they actually learned something from it, which is about the best outcome I could hope for.

  At the same time, I learned something too: these talks need to be shorter. This one ran for over an hour, and I am fairly certain I flatlined a few people 😅

Here you have each task’s relative time distribution for this month:

Documentation Status

This is the current status of all documentation tasks. The main line to watch is Symbol Documentation at the top, with all other entries listed as its subtasks. The bars in the chart represent how many of those subtasks have been completed. The change since last month is shown in orange.

This month we completed the last of the planned tutorials, so that bar has finally reached 100% 🎉

Jaguar is currently doing a final read-through of the docs, and I am addressing his comments.

The remaining tasks focus on ensuring that the merge into the main repository and the publication at the final address (https://docs.symbol.dev, where the current docs reside) work as expected.

After that, the user guides for the new wallet will be written once it becomes available.

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