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Writing documentation is boring, adding new features is more fun to do. Someone working on open source to have fun is more likely to invest their time in more
by haukem 5y ago
Writing documentation is boring, adding new features is more fun to do.
Someone working on open source to have fun is more likely to invest their time in more features instead of better documentation.
Here companies or users like you could step in and contribute better documentation or pay the original authors to improve the documentation.
- sidlls 5y agoWhy on earth would I labor for free on someone’s vanity project, no matter what utility it provides otherwise? And why would a company pay a person who has already shown he or she does not value their own labor in that way?
- bityard 5y agoYou want good documentation from an (ostensibly hypothetical) piece of open source software that you use. But you will neither pay for nor contribute better documentation. You see where the problem is, right? I'll give you a hint, it's not the developer...
- sidlls 5y agoNo, it absolutely is the fault of the developer, both for poor practice of the craft and for contributing to a toxic, exploitative labor environment by giving away his work for free.
- varajelle 5y agoYou don't have to use his project then. Is someone release code because he liked to code but don't write any docs because that's boring, that's perfectly fine. No abuse there. The abuse is when you requests docs for free.