On openHAB documentation and some more

[Nadahar (Nadar)]

@mstormi

It’s much less complicated than you apparently think it is.
The semantic model is essentially just additional groups and tags, and strictly speaking doesn’t even impact MainUI. If you use it, it tags your items and adds them to groups.
The default MainUI entry page called “overview” then uses this information to present users a default view on their home.

That’s great, and my point is that I’m not sure if this comes clearly across. If I knew from the start that this is all it’s used for, it would have been much easier to estimate the implications of what I do there, and thus easier to handle.

@rettsan_wf

Even if I am the sole developer, using Git would have advantages. I would always have an overview of when and which changes were made and could easily roll back if there were any problems. Currently I have to maintain the headers in my files and note the changes there… like 20 years ago.

I do store my OH config using Git - and although there are a few “annoyances” (like changing timestamps that trigger diffs that really isn’t a change), it works well all in all. I would never put it on GitHub though, I store it in a private repository that I host myself - and which is backed up to tape.

@ErikDB Yes, that’s fine, but it don’t find that when searching for “changelog”, and I don’t remember that I must use “special rules” to find that changes for OH.

@mstormi

That cuts both ways. Once they understood how things work and how they should best handle this, old-timers (like me, too) are pretty reluctant to again question that and re-learn something new. The more they invested the more reluctant becuase it means their investment is at a loss.
Also, they tend to see the new stuff as some ‘organic’ extension to old stuff and try to link and make sense of details where old and new stuff obviously don’t match or integrate because they inherently make the mistake to think that the new stuff was designed with full awareness of the old stuff, reusing everything, doubling nothing etc. Which it wasn’t.

Absolutely, I wasn’t saying that what I described was the only reason for this “dynamics”, and resistance to change when it means loss of time and effort already invested is a human trait which we all probably share to a large extent. But, I still think it’s probable that there is a “filtering effect” on new users, where you never hear anything from those that try and give up realtivly quickly.