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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)