I have to agree with Lars on this topic.
"Protect" sounds to me like
And that's where the discussion went bankrupt, where the topic was shifted to how someone felt about a word when instead there was a precise definition of what the word meant, and a concrete context against which that definition was illustrated. Perhaps I am the one to fault for this as I've been quite long winded on this topic. So if you read 3 minutes into the backlog you'll see that "Protect" in the context has nothing to do with dogma or exclusion or control, but on the contrary was about propagating up-to-date information and empirically tested good practices. Anyway, I have little interest in building a theory of learning in the FOSS environment, let alone defending it on this ML. Just wanted to keep people in the loop. I will continue to do so, but at the end of the day, only concrete results matter. Anyone here will have plenty of time to make constructive criticisms of every aspect and detail of the results, and I have no reason to doubt that we will try our best to honour them. See ya later the team wants to artifically limit me (as
a contributor) on which platforms I can use to engage with other openSUSE contributors and define exactly where I must go if I wish to provide information to openSUSE users.
I assure you, if that is the case, then I will cease contributing to any "official" openSUSE documentation platform and only provide information via platforms of my own control.
Like Lars says, we're a diverse bunch, and respecting that diversity is a key value of the openSUSE's guiding principles.
I do hope I have misunderstood what you mean by "Protect", but if I have not, then I hope I make it very clear where I stand on the matter.
Le mercredi 14 octobre 2020 à 16:22 +0200, Lars Vogdt a écrit :
Am 2020-10-14 15:11, schrieb Adrien Glauser:
My beef with it is that it kinda assumes that we want to accept the status quo with the current level fragmentation in support material, while this "refreshing the learning experience" is about challenging the status quo. To be clear, we are talking about two strategies:
(Repair) Bite the bullet about fragmentation, make or customize a search engine able to fight fragmentation after the facts, so that support material is dynamically aggregated.
(Protect) Refuse to bite the bullet, prevent fragmentation in the first place by collecting information into a static (yet easy to maintain) single "source of truth & best practices", and then hope it irrigates all platforms.
I have to admit that I really like your enthusiasm and wish your project all the best!
I just fear that "Repair" is the only realistic option, especially long term.
Why? We are an open source project with a lot of individuals trying to work on their areas of interest. Often enough these areas produce very interesting and useful stuff, but the results could - at least in the beginning - not be integrated under your "protect" umbrella (mostly because of resource or time restrictions). You can decide to loose some of these projects because of your restrictions, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea.
We are diverse. Everyone has different opinions and different favorite tools. Trying to press everyone into the same tooling will not help to get more volunteers. I even tend to say that people who provided content in "their" tool in the past will neither spent their current time to migrate their content nor will they update their parts in the new setup later.
I have seen this in the past with the "wiki migration". A lot of people stopped their voluntary contributions once others decided that they *have to move* and refresh their provided content in the new wiki pages. Since than, for me, it's clear that forcing volunteers to re-do their former work is a way to push good contributors out of the system.
And as I said before: so far I see the reason behind each tool that we (as openSUSE community) provide to our "customers". What I miss on the other side is kind of a portal (page) that helps people to identify these tools and ways to collaborate and contribute. And I miss - like you - volunteers that review the existing content.
About your other point about the tools that the openSUSE platforms provide, is there an up-to-date list of every single tool hosted by openSUSE? Yes I am being lazy, but better being lazy than risking overlooking things.
For projects hosted and maintained in the openSUSE universe (this includes infrastructure provided by the heroes as well as SUSE powered stuff) I suggest to look at:
...and if you click on the icon in the upper right corner of that page, you should get a cool overview of all currently known openSUSE related stuff.
With kind regards, Lars
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