Open Documentation Initiative

je-hal · ‎03-06-2023

Never want to miss again when new documentation is onboarded for the Open Documentation Initiative. Then subscribe to this blog post.

je-hal · ‎07-10-2023

Are you wondering why we introduced GitHub templates for our repositories in the SAP-docs organization? Then read on...

je-hal · ‎06-09-2023

Don't miss your chance to talk to us about the initiative (registration is still option until June 16).

je-hal · ‎05-10-2023

GitHub changed the UI for content proposals on github.com. See here what this means for our initiative.

je-hal · ‎04-27-2023

Avatars in GitHub are used to acknowledge who contributed to a project. We're happy to announce that you can also see them on SAP Help Portal now whenever someone contributed to our documentation through GitHub.

je-hal · ‎02-21-2023

Learn how to earn badges in the SAP community for providing feedback to the documentation, and that we introduced new ones to acknowledge your feedback every year.

je-hal · ‎02-01-2023

GitHub is a powerful collaboration platform where open source projects thrive. The Open Documentation Initiative takes advantage of this strength for SAP standard documentation. By doing this, you can be sure that your feedback is not only heard, it's also replied to so that the responsible author can understand better what's wrong with the documentation. Nevertheless, you may not like the approach, or cannot use it for other reasons. I'd like to invite you to this discussion to get a better idea why. What is it that you don't like? Is there anything we can improve? Looking forward to your answers.

je-hal · ‎02-01-2023

Whenever we introduce the Open Documentation Initiative to someone, we get very positive feedback. Some customers want to have this new feedback channel switched on for all documentation on SAP Help Portal. Well, it's not that easy. First of all, there is no automated way to do that. Second, the approach is also new to our authors at SAP, so each new team needs to get familiar with the process. Last, but not least, the Open Documentation Initiative is targeted mainly at developers, because for many of them GitHub is a tool that they already use. The bottom line is that we focus on documentation for services of the SAP Business Technology Platform. It seems best to have a look at services with many customers (so that many can profit from this new option), and completely new services (so that improvements can be made early). What guides would you like to see GitHub enabled? Although we cannot promise that it fits into our schedule, it's always helpful what users out there need, and maybe it will help us to make a decision when we need to prioritize things.