Adding documentation using manpages to the manifesto. - bitreich-documents - The repository to track the core bitreich documents. HTML git clone git://bitreich.org/bitreich-documents/ git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/bitreich-documents/ DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Tags --- DIR commit bfee9fcd36476cc540c704cb6421021f1e25277e DIR parent 56ab7788dc77adf357e2d2bfb0e097a688f62470 HTML Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:00:43 +0000 Adding documentation using manpages to the manifesto. The addition of this paragraph was decided by the council on 2018-01-30. Diffstat: M bitreich-manifesto.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/bitreich-manifesto.md b/bitreich-manifesto.md @@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ erything needs to be present. This is subject-oriented programming. Bugtrackers are obsolete. Whenever you find a bug, fix it. The other principles make it possible for you to send a patch instead of a report. +#### Straightforward Documentation + +There are all kind of tools like javadoc, info etc. which fragment the +way to find useful information. All software should provide manpages. If +you need more features than manpages require, rethink what you are try‐ +ing to document. Manpages have a well‐defined structure which makes +finding and extracting the required information easier and uniform. + #### Applications Can Be Done When a project solves a problem, keep it done and declare it so. New