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I have often complained that, even though thousands of developers are paid to work on the Linux kernel, there is not a single person whose job it is to write documentation for the kernel. The problem is wider than that, though: Alejandro Colomar, who has been maintaining the man pages collection for the last four years, can no longer afford to do it for free.
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@corbet This speaks pretty poorly of those thousands of developers who are paid to contribute to the kernel. It sounds like they're all sending code and none of them are documenting anything. IMHO, if you haven't documented something you haven't finished it. Especially in the context of paid work.
@whynothugo There are plenty of developers who write documentation, don't get me wrong; some of them work quite hard at it. But that is usually not what their employers are paying them to do.