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

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:10:03 -0800
PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Christoph, for your complete answers and your patience in
> providing them.

Hi Patrick,

no problem, you–and all the others–are welcome.

> You say, "I'm sure you know all this already." That's a bad working
> assumption. It's good in that it means you respect my intelligence,
> but it leaves me without the complete set of information you have
> provided here.

Sorry, my bad. Even though I wrote "all this", I meant to refer only to
the wiki maintenance guidelines because I assumed people on this list
know them. I was not referring to all the other stuff I wrote and which
is probably new to everybody but me. That's why explain it in great
detail. If somebody has any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

> I first became interested in openSUSE when I saw a presentation about
> openQA at SCaLE 13x in 2015. I'm still, two years later, trying to
> understand the project work flow. I would really like to shorten that
> two years for those that come behind me.

That's a very noble goal, that I can wholeheartedly support. As someone
who has been around in the Fedora community for over a decade, I still
find many things about openSUSE confusing. Getting new contributors
onboarded quickly is definitely something we should focus on when we
improve the wiki.

Something like a "New Contributors Guide" would be pretty cool to have.
Anybody (with more experience than me) wants to work on that? I would
offer being the guinea pig and ask all the questions newbies have. ;-)

Best regards,
Christoph

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