Those are common questions that are raised by both experienced contributor or newcomers to the
project.
We are searching for alignment for an approach towards a more sustainable future where people
can search and find those answers without depending on specific individuals.
Considered Options
Start a cultural shift towards documentation as a priority
Continue as we are, only creating documentation as a proactive initiative of certain
individuals
Decision Outcome
We choose to start a cultural shift towards documentation as a priority because:
We want to accept more contributions to the project
Our source code is public, but it has proven to be very complex to understand without help
Onboarding new people to the project is very difficult and almost always requires a mentor
Actionables
Start communicating to the teams this initiative
Try to slowly start documenting new features or architectural changes
Create a gitbook where we can add documentation in a bureaucracy-free fashion. We spoke
about playbooks like: How to clone and start the Decentraland client
Evaluate if we can start documenting what we currently have retroactively, no need to rush.