Re: [opensuse-wiki] Why is this acceptable?

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On 2016-12-30 19:34, PatrickD Garvey wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Sarah Julia Kriesch <> wrote:


> Sarah,
> To put my response to your reply succinctly, you're not seeing the
> world through my eyes.
>
> As I understand it, your perception of the variety of tools used to
> accomplish the tasks required to support the openSUSE project and the
> SUSE product is an opportunity to learn many things. My perception is
> each learning opportunity is a use of time that is needed to produce
> the components of the project/product that is non-productive if one
> has already learned a tool and it's syntax that does the job.
>
> Learning a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, ...
> documentation tool is non-productive when my objective is to provide
> high quality documentation. The fact there are three different
> syntax's that are used by three different documentation producing
> sub-communities also increases the effort required to coordinate the
> work of those sub-communities such that the same documentation is
> produced only once, not three times. The fact there is a link in the
> openSUSE wiki to a GitHub file indicates it takes an unnecessary
> expenditure of time for a new member of the openSUSE project just to
> locate the documentation, let alone keep it up to date.
>
> Producing software products is still a very labor-intensive process.
> Diverting available time to repeated re-learning of a mastered skill
> is a serious cost to the quality, as well as the quantity, of the
> output.

With my user and tech writer hat on, I agree.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)