> In the beginning I had unkind descriptions of these sorts of questions, but I've come to be more sympathetic to them, especially the questions that come from people abroad who may not have English as their first language. The unfortunate fact is that projects aren't necessarily well documented and their documentation probably is dauntingly hard to read for people who aren't fluent in technical English, and people have work to get done (using those projects).
I am lucky to have English be my primary language. If most of the world's documentation was in another language like Spanish, I can certainly see myself struggling to RTFM and resort to posting on a forum with my best effort at using Spanish to explain the context of my technical bug and request for help.