THANKS! Re: Software engineer tech. writers? Do they exist?

[Stuart Burnfield]

I might rate OSS doco work quite highly, but as with any other sample I 
want to look at the contribution myself and I want to be able to verify 
how much of it is the applicant's own work--100%, 90%, 50%, 1%, ...

It seems to me it would be easier to assess a programmer's actual 
contribution to the software than a technical writer's contribution to 
the docs. That's just my feeling though--I don't know enough about how 
OSS projects work to be sure.

Stuart


 > while it's not unusual for a software developer to contribute
 > code to an open-source software project, I haven't (personally)
 > seen much evidence of tech. writers contributing documentation,
 > manuals, etc. to open-source software projects.