Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
On 05/29/2009 11:13 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> One should waterboard the developer till he/she agrees to write the
> manpage.
This is unlikely to be effective as a strategy. Hey, it is somewhat ok
that you give me software for free with open source code voluntarily but
I demand you write full documentation to go along with it or else ..?
How to encourage people to do the right thing is an important question.
Linux distributions do have a little bit of pull with the developers.
It is not exactly like the developers don't get *anything* out of the
transaction. They get their egos stroked and get their name in 12pt
pixels on a zillion computer screens. More if they write that manpage
and fill in the AUTHORS section. ;-)
-wolfgang
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