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Documentation Dearth Dooms Open Source Projects

One of the essential draws to open source software should be superior product documentation. Well-written user guidelines are a key strategy that software developers should use to increase an open source project’s growth and user adoption.

All too often, programmers finish their last line of code and shove the open source software out the door — or, more realistically, post it on their website waiting for users to flock to its greatness.

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