Thread:User talk:Guillom/Roles and responsibilities/Thoughts on technical writers and editors?

Do you have thoughts on how technical editors and writers fit into the picture?

For my part, I'm finding these things:
 * a significant portion of the documentation is out-of-date
 * that which is up-to-date is often incomplete or simply incorrect
 * technical editors/writers need significant technical knowledge and research skills to be effective - even with these skills, they will also need support from the core devs on particularly challenging or unfamiliar topics