So… retired/unemployed programmers or employed ones who’d like to contribute to open source:
What do you think of a “Civilian Documentation Corps”¹?
There are tons of contributed packages to popular languages that are fine but underused because underdocumented. Some of the package owners are well-intentioned but no good at documentation or don’t understand its importance. Why not swoop in with an offer of help? (1/6)
Brian Marick /
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2024-06-22 23:41:47
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