Extended Abstract: Documentation Development Practice in Open Source Startups - Take PingCAP as an Example

In recent years, many open source startups have been adopting a new documentation development solution - GitHub plus Markdown. It's an agile 'Docs Like Code' solution that keeps documents close to the code and applies software development tools and techniques to documentation. Although this open source documentation solution is typically adopted by open source startups or projects, it also applies to any other kind of company as long as you want to make your documentation public to users or customers. This abstract aims to introduce this new choice of documentation solution by elaborating on its practice at an open source startup called PingCAP, so as to promote its adoption in the technical communication field.