OpenSource documentation problems

[Fredrik Lundh]

Steve Holden wrote:

> I agree that maintaining documentation is a generic problem of the open
> source world, but it's a sad fact of life that generally people are
> better-motivated to complain about documentation (and almost everything
> else) than to help improve it.

another problem is that to be able to do really good work on the
documentation, you need to know things well enough to "have the
big picture".  and once you have that, you'll find that the docs aren't
really as bad as you once thought they were.

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