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> Want to tell me how "entitled" I am? Sorry I didn't notice the provocation until now! You are very entitled, and you overestimate how much time most people h
by anothergoogler 8y ago
> Want to tell me how "entitled" I am?
Sorry I didn't notice the provocation until now! You are very entitled, and you overestimate how much time most people have to contribute to open source projects. I'm happy if a FLOSS project even provides moderately recent API docs, which apparently upset you.
For what it's worth, I attribute most of Django's success to its top-notch documentation. I've shipped large Django projects and think it's solid software, and I greatly appreciate your contributions. At the same time I recognize that Django won what is essentially a popularity contest. Web frameworks are a crowded space and beginner-friendly docs are required. If I'm open sourcing a library that is the only one of its kind, priorities differ. I don't think you recognize that difference, and you're judging other projects as you would a web framework. Some of the best libraries I've used came with little more than API docs. Selecting open source libraries by the quality of their documentation is a risky practice, to say the least.