On 4/19/2011 14:19, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I kinda agree with you on this point - a lot of development is done in a
> very collaborative way, so those who could/want to improve tend to not
> work in isolation, but as part of a team that has ongoing communication.

Bringing someone up to speed on the internals of a project that has no 
internal documentation is extremely time consuming.

> In that respect, OSS isn't much different from closed-source development
> (at least not in my experience).  Closed-source software is developed
> before documentation is completed - documentation tends to start being
> written when the product is installable, because the screens (for
> example) tend to change before release.

End-user documentation, yes. But most of the OSS projects are released 
before there's any internal documentation either.  Usually even worse.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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