> What are other activities, interests that could motivate developers to write documentation? This is the wrong way of looking at it. It assumes a premise that

> What are other activities, interests that could motivate developers to write documentation? This is the wrong way of looking at it. It assumes a premise that documentation is a goal rather than a means. To get developers to write documentation there's a few key ingredients. It has to deliver value that the writers appreciate. It has to keep delivering value over long time periods (e.g. stale docs can sometimes be worse than no docs). There has to be a culture/routine of writing documentation and kept as a priority so that it doesn't get cut when there's a time crunch or other work priorities. Oh yeah one other huge one is that it has to have minimal friction: e.g. commit it in the repo with the code changes so that it's no extra steps and the doc changes get reviewed with code changes.