What Every Community Needs
Yesterday I wrote that every project should make its governance discoverable. Here are a few other things that would help programming communities:
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tldr pages: one-line manual pages with practical examples.
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explainshell: automated drill-down explanations of commands.
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this vs. that: short explanations of the differences between things that are frequently confused.
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a glossary: preferably subsetted from a shared one because why reinvent the world?
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concept maps: or other remixable illustrations of key ideas.
Please let me know what else is on your list: I’m always grateful for pointers.