/postmortems

Postmortem metadata from danluu/post-mortems.

Primary LanguageGoGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

postmortems

GoDoc Go Report Card

Available at https://postmortems.app

This repo means to create a public repository of postmortems with annotated metadata and summaries of public postmortem documents. This repo takes the work in https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems and expands on it, trying to add categories, time data, and room for more in-depth analysis.

If you'd like to contribute, either edit a postmortem file in the data folder, or try to fix an issue.

If you want further process the postmortem metadata files locally, we have a folder with all the metadata in JSON format. Please let us know your findings.

Tool

$ go run ./tool
pm [options...]
Options:
-action     The action we should take.
-dir        The directory with Markdown files for to extract or parse. Defaults to ./data

Actions:
extract     Extract postmortems from the collection and create separate files.
generate    Generate JSON files from the postmortem Markdown files.
new         Create a new postmortem file.
validate    Validate the postmortem files in the directory.
serve       Serve the postmortem files in a small website.

Shoutouts

  • @dastergon for fixing a bunch of bugs, porting hacky Ruby code to Go, and implementing webserver!

If you would like to find postmortem templates from various companies, you can check at the postmortem-templates repository on Github.