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Authors: Jared Bhatti
2022-05-19

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The importance of writing good documentation for open source projects and best practices for quick approval
  • Good documentation has a profound impact on the visibility, quality, and inclusivity of open source projects
  • Developers prefer documentation to contacting support or talking to an actual person
  • Most developers see documentation and its incompleteness or its lack of existence to be a huge problem in the community
  • The goal is to write inclusive, accessible, high-quality documentation in pull requests designed for quick approval
  • Best practices include structuring documentation using content templates, writing with clarity and technical accuracy, and avoiding common pitfalls that trap PRs in prolonged reviews
  • Writing in second person and focusing on the user's perspective is the most useful thing you can do
  • Specify what kind of review you want and set context for your reviewer