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Nobody reads README files! Documentation is a waste!

What You Say

Every serious open-source project, federal agency, and Fortune 500 repo ships a README — because onboarding without docs wastes more time than writing them. Project Sunrise documents how to run locally, deploy, and contribute so volunteers can add sourced events without reverse-engineering the build. Democracy tools that can't explain themselves to new contributors don't scale past one person's laptop.

The Stab

Heritage wrote 922 pages. We wrote a README.

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