I’ve been thinking of contributing to foss projects with more than testing and bug reporting. I want to contribute to mainly open source game engines. There are a few that are mature and underrated, but lack any documentation for a user to get started. This is why I decided to do documentation, but I don’t know where or how to start.
Is there any general rule/guidelines for getting started with this ? I’m looking for anything that can help a beginner documentation writer
You can often search for “[your topic] university pdf” to find good resources.
Here is one of the results I found searching “technical writing university pdf”
https://prowriting.web.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Open-Technical-Writing_-An-Open-Access-Text-for-Instruction-in-Te.pdf
Maybe there is more when searching for “writing documdntation university pdf”.
That’s actually a great suggestion. Thanks for sharing that book as well, it appears to go really in depth.
I’ll try searching and will update the post with any good resource I find as well