Rocco Caputo - Why You Hate Writing Documentation
Channel: Shadowcat Systems
Date: 2012-03-22

Recorded at the Perl Oasis 2012.

Documentation is anathema to hackers. Releasing early and often is much harder when every code change requires an editorial pass to an ever-growing body of documentation. The common solutions are to either not document anything, to let the documentation fall into disrepair, or to release late and not so often. What's a fun-loving but conscientious hacker to do?

Well, if you're like me, you take a year-long sabbatical from a large-documentation project to shave the meta-documentation yak. In this talk, I'll yak about that yak.