Dan Allen and Sarah White: Documentation Dearth Dooms Open Source ProjectsOne of the essential draws to open source software should be superior product documentation. Well-written user guidelines are a key strategy that software developers should use to increase an open source project's growth and user adoption.
All too often, programmers finish their last line of code and shove the open source software out the door. Documentation is often an afterthought, if that.
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Dan Allen and Sarah White: Documentation Dearth Dooms Open Source Projects
