Many OSS projects produce useful code—after all, they generally begin life as a solution to some programmers specific concrete problem. ("Scratching a personal itch [of the developer]" as Eric S. Raymond famously said.) Documentation, sadly, is often an afterthought for many projects.
That is why I think projects would greatly benefit from having more people like Kevin Walzer. People who can contribute (not just) open source code, but (equally if not more importantly) superb documentation as well.
—Michael A. Cleverly
Saturday, June 18, 2005 at 09:51