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Documentation drives adoption: 72% of developers cite established policies/docs when choosing open source and 93% report incomplete docs as pervasive. Concrete fixes are low-effort: provide checklists and templates, a wish list of docs types, and a documentation-focused site theme (example: doxie Hugo theme). Also build documentation time into workflows and reward contributors with recognition or monetary tribute so docs actually get written and maintained.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:01Tools
- 5:02Meta documentation
- 5:20Reduce friction
- 6:04Good Docs Project
- 6:50Doxy
- 7:45Tools and time
- 8:41Tribute
- 9:08Why
- 9:33You can
- 10:03Developer pushback
- 10:38NonGoogle time
- 10:51Wordneck
- 11:54Recap
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