If you're producing tools, utilities or toys for use by anyone without compensation or recognition, you should also be an expert teacher and communicator with a evolved sense of visual design, UX, and technical writing.

The fact that these are at least 4 distinct skillsets to which people are variously proficient or inclined to practice has no place in the position I take on this issue.


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in reply to @boodoo's post:

if one of your friends asks you for help using a tool someone else made, they're doing it because they trust and respect you and you should be a good friend about it, obviously.

the whole point of OSS and free (libre) computer shit is the benefit of distributing that out among networks and not asking the same creator who made the tool to also teach you how to use it or write documentation a normal human can parse.