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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. ... View more

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.  ... View more

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