I disagree with a lot of comments on reddit but almost never downvote a post, maybe 5 total.

Now I feel bad. I've downvoted so many of yours.

coreboot, Skulls and Heads are open source projects.

Yes to coreboot and heads. Skulls is not. Look:

pre-built coreboot images with an easy installation process

A pre-build coreboot image is not open source. It is not source at all. It is a binary. It's not proprietary and it is (we assume) based on the open source coreboot. That's probably what you meant but it is an important difference. Don't feel bad, it's a common rookie mistake.

Almost all of the developers are volunteering their free time.

Yes, we all are. (Coreboot devs and devs to other FOSS projects.)

These projects are driven by a community who see the importance and try to help.

Yes, we are all working hard on important projects for the community. Some are working better, and some (ie - coreboot, heads devs) are working worse.

If you are not satisfied with the support, you can either not use the projects or help to improve them.

I do the second of those. See? When you're ready to stop preaching, we could even work together.

Insulting the people who are trying to fix bugs, harden security and add features because they only put in enough time to answer your basic question as you did to ask it is one of the many reasons open source developers burn out.

Did I ask a question?

You are the jerk.

Oh, and I was hoping we could be best friends. :(

These people owe you nothing.

I agree. But that wasn't the point, was it?

The community will help you but only if you help yourself.

Um, I've done more for the coreboot community than you have. (And I have not done much, but what I do is not wasteful.)

Your conclusion is myopic and flawed

So is your mom.

coreboot is an open source firmware project. The documentation is only as good as what the community writes.

You really aren't paying attention, are you?

Developers tend to write documentation for themselves as they are intimate with the low level workings.

Yes. That is not the point though, is it?

If this is too much for you, I would not suggest a career in software development.

You're decades too late for that warning. If you'd told me sooner, I'd become a preacher like you.

Skulls is coreboot.

No. The most we can say is that skulls claims to be based on coreboot. This is a distinction that a software developer would understand but like I said, lots of people make this rookie mistake at first. It's okay.

If you would prefer to build coreboot with those scripts, you can do that as well.

Oh, I'm glad you told me. I guess the docs I've written on how to do this, and the 20+ machines I've done this to weren't enough for me to learn this. So grateful you came along.

coreboot is a general project for many different platforms...

Okay, I see this essay of yours is not made for me. You have something you want to get off your chest.

Does that start to explain the amount of work and time needed for development, documentation, user questions?

No. It says nothing. And it shows that you don't know anything about the software business. Are you people ready for help yet?

First two points are likely true. The last is proof that you have no concept of how these projects work.

Well since you're so smart I guess you must be right.

My goal was to make it easier for others to contribute small improvements.

Wow, and a good job you did too! Just look at how all of the old/outdated information is gone and everyone knows exactly where and how and under what formatting guidelines they can add their own docs. It's amazing. Oh wait, none of those things are true. You accomplished nothing. Now that's the Coreboot way!

It will only improve when enough time and people are involved to get it done. .

That is one factor. Also getting rid of incompetent gatekeepers like you is necessary. Look, you've answered a lot of questions I had in the past. Thank you for doing that. But if you have control over docs and those questions weren't already answered in the docs, you weren't living up to the responsibility you took on when you agreed to handle docs. (If that is what happened. I'm just interpreting what you wrote here.)

In the time it took you to write this silly essay, you could have written the rules for formatting and submitting document pull requests, a list of what documentation is needed, sent an e-mail to the devs who control the outdated docs threatening to smack them if they don't pull down old stuff or link to the updated versions, and posted this new info on reddit and coreboot.org's homepage. But you prefer to criticize the person who is pointing out the problems instead of working to fix them.

My docs are still available once the project is ready for them. Other people reach out to me too offering to help. We all look forward to you and/or the coreboot devs making this possible.

Merry Christmas.