How About “Best Documented”?
January 20, 2006 – 11:12 | fisheye, javaSeeing and reading about all the awards coming out at the beginning of a new year, I wonder how come there isn’t a “Best Documented Project Award”? IMHO, as the complexity of software products grows, the importance of documentation grows along, which ought to be reflected in the annual awards. Of course, considering the significant difference in terms of financial models and operation nature, OSS projects should be competing in categories separated from commercial projects. Further more, within OSS projects, projects that are completely on a voluntary-basis should be in yet another different category from those sponsored by companies. So, next year, how about three awards - Best Documented Commercial Product; Best Documented OSS Product, with Corporate Sponsorship; Best Documented OSS Product, with Volunteers?
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2 Responses to “How About “Best Documented”?”
+1
This is a great idea. I just wonder how to differentiate between the two OSS versions? There is often someone paid by a company, but it might not be that obvious like with Eclipse.
So I would like to see only two categories.
So who is going to set this up?
By Karsten Voges on Jan 23, 2006
Thanks for the comment. I thought of that as well, but decided that for most OSS projects at least we would know when they are sponsored by a company, on the other hand, it would not be very fair to compare projects like Eclipse or Netbeans to those like Hibernate (before they joined JBoss, that is).
By Jing Xue on Jan 23, 2006