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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If documentation is the root cause of that then you should fix that by creating enough documentation to allow your software to continue to work

Or create a better UI that doesn't require so much documentation.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This assumes front-end development.

From a (dev)ops perspective, if I had a vendor hand me a tarball instead of proper documentation, I'd look very far away from their company. It isn't a matter of if shit goes wrong, but when. And when that shit goes wrong, having comprehensive documentation about the architecture and configuration is going to be a lot more useful than having to piece it together yourself in the middle of an outage.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, I almost added a clarification for that very point, and see now that I should have.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Or create a better UI that doesn't require so much documentation.

Sacrilege!! /s