Poll: How should new developers get documentation on all the viewers?
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a README.TXT in every viewer, with accurate features list and where to use them
33.33%
1 33.33%
a wiki type page for each viewer, much easier to find than reading every forum thread and compiling it all each time you need something accurate
33.33%
1 33.33%
a README.TXT in every viewer, with a vague feature list ("Does mesh". Rigged mesh? Bento? Compile to find out! An hour of poking around to have half a chance to find where the feature is if it present!)
0%
0 0%
a separate forum thread, to make sure the viewer versions and features lists / howto drift apart and are incompatible --- or are fully lost if we accidentally lose forums.
0%
0 0%
Developpers should all reinvent the wheel, to prove they're devs or something, before they get to do anything more useful! Down with people who just want to add a new cool new feature and never code again, we're not wikipedia!
0%
0 0%
I wish for new developers to waste 2 weeks compiling random viewer stuff to make sure half of them quit and the other half makes one or two less features because of the time sink! Down with new features!!
33.33%
1 33.33%
A wiki or HTML table listing all features comparatively for all viewers. Editable by any developer.
0%
0 0%
There is this viewer that does EVERYTHING, you just wait until you spent 2 weeks compilng to find out which one! My first week on forums pre-VIP didn't tell me that --- that info is for ELDER VIPS! Down with documentation!!!
0%
0 0%
Security by obscurity -> ??? -> profit!
0%
0 0%
The elder developers wish noob developers to stop stealing their jobs! Plus if you need an odd DLL library or something --- it costs your soul, your firstborn, an arm, a leg and 100 reputation points
0%
0 0%
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Finding accurate documentation on all viewers QUICKLY

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Brick 
I have been stumped by how many viewers in the source code section (and elsewhere) lack a proper README.TXT file listing features.

As a NEW developper here, this is my plan if nothing changes:

1- Try to find info on all viewers in the forums to make sure I'm not duplicating coding effort --- I want to add something NEW or fix something. However viewers are often incompletely documented --- or not at all. Not a single README.TXT file found today!

2- Then I download code semi-randomly, and compile viewers based on guesses of what the features are or aren't. Compile instructions on what libraries a viewer needs to compile is usually not coming and it may take bloody ages.

3- After a week or two, I'd find out what needs to be added, merged, fixed, etc to avoid duplicating work.

I would rather it go like this:

1- Find friendly README.TXT or wiki page comparative feature table in a wiki page.

2- Less than an hour later, find out something I want to fix, merge, or add because I know what isn't reinventing the wheel.

We'd duplicate a lot less work, and/or get a lot more new developpers to start coding BEFORE THEY LOSE THE DESIRE TO DO SO from the tedious search for documentation.

So here is a poll!
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I could use help making poll formatting. There is no preview or edit for it.
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