From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-04-23T02:10:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

> Release it!  Users will help you build much better documentation
> than you could easily write yourself, since they'll ask questions about
> what they want to know.  This way you write the useful documents first.

That's an alluring sentiment, but I keep thinking back at all the times 
I've dismissed a library for lack of documentation. And usually I 
didn't check back for quite a while after that.

A project has to be really, really exciting before you're going to go 
through all the trouble of insufficient documentation. I think that's 
where the "10-minute rule" comes from.

I'd like to believe the reverse to be true, though. So I could release 
Rails :)
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