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This is a very valuable post in my opinion. Documentation is so critical to open source as well as to the private sector.

It can make the difference in how long it takes you to complete a project at work.

At this point I believe that documentation is the most important marketing artifact that a project has.

I always point out the readme pages of projects on github. How many times has that made the difference between you using the project or not?

Not zero if I can't figure out how to get started in a reasonable amount of time. I'll go look for another solution