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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Meta How does the community feel about resource requests?

I think these kinds of questions are fine, but I am just one person. open source product I have been using appears to be poorly-documented is an extremely common problem. I have actually seen the p...

posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar manassehkatz‭ · 2020-08-28T00:17:41Z (about 4 years ago)
I think these kinds of questions are fine, but I am just one person.

*open source product I have been using appears to be poorly-documented* is an **extremely** common problem. I have actually seen the problem even on some paid products. So searching for help that *should* be in a project's documentation is not unusual at all.

A lot depends on the way questions are asked. But asked in a reasonable way, and showing attempts at prior research, such questions can be quite appropriate.

A different thing, which may or may not happen here, is the possibility of people creating documentation of projects or technologies, how-to guides or other types of *articles* that would be of help to lots of people. There are many other places on the internet for such things, but linking them together with relevant Q&A is something being considered as part of Codidact, along with other things a little different from "just another Q&A system".