Great Documentation Is Key to Open Source Success

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 17, 2009 3:33 AM EDT
Webmonkey; By Scott Gilbertson
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Listen up open source developers, if you want your project to succeed you’re going to have to do more than write great code; you’re going to have to document it, teach new users how it works and provide real-world examples of what you can do with it. That’s the message from Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the creators of Django, a very successful open source, Python-based web framework. At least some Django’s success can be attributed to its thorough documentation which is not just reference materials, but also includes tutorials, topical guides and even snippets of design philosophy.

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