[Python-Dev] status of development documentation (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu Dec 22 02:33:12 CET 2005

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 17:15, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I'm not convinced it's the toolchain though. People hate writing documentation. Getting people to contribute documentation is worse than pulling teeth.

I don't think it's the toolchain either. While most people don't have it, it's easier and easier to get a decent toolchain on Linux; TeX just isn't as hard to have around as it used to be.

I suspect that part of the problem is that there's no need to write documentation to scratch itches: once you know what to write, your itch has been scratched (you're already able to make the changes needed to your own code); nobody is relying on the updated documentation to be released to use what they figured out, even if they noted that the documentation was lacking to start with.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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