Comments on: Eclipse Helios in the News http://aniszczyk.org/2010/06/25/eclipse-helios-in-the-news/ work. life. open source. diatribes. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott http://aniszczyk.org/2010/06/25/eclipse-helios-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-2045 Scott Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:33:29 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/?p=2565#comment-2045 Andrew is right, of course...that it takes different (not less) skills to right good documentation, examples, tutorials, etc. <br><br>My comment is that whatever the skills required, the actual application of those skill requires one thing: project resources (people time == $$). If the commercial members continue to starve the 'commons' EF projects for resources (i.e. that they don't own, but they depend upon), this simply cannot improve. <br><br>Putting additional/other 'requirements' on committers and contributors won't work...because requirements mean nothing if the problem is that there is no visible means of support for anyone's time Andrew is right, of course…that it takes different (not less) skills to right good documentation, examples, tutorials, etc.

My comment is that whatever the skills required, the actual application of those skill requires one thing: project resources (people time == $$). If the commercial members continue to starve the 'commons' EF projects for resources (i.e. that they don't own, but they depend upon), this simply cannot improve.

Putting additional/other 'requirements' on committers and contributors won't work…because requirements mean nothing if the problem is that there is no visible means of support for anyone's time

]]> By: Andrew Niefer http://aniszczyk.org/2010/06/25/eclipse-helios-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-2044 Andrew Niefer Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:50:51 +0000 http://aniszczyk.org/?p=2565#comment-2044 Documentation is real work that takes real time. The last time I worked on a commercial product, there were people whose full time job was writing documentation. When documentation is written by the developers you then have a trade off with writing code.<br><br>It takes a different skill set to write good documentation, I think fixing this for real requires contributors who focus on the documentation. Documentation is real work that takes real time. The last time I worked on a commercial product, there were people whose full time job was writing documentation. When documentation is written by the developers you then have a trade off with writing code.

It takes a different skill set to write good documentation, I think fixing this for real requires contributors who focus on the documentation.

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