Remember that this thread was sparked by otterly's comment: [0]
> The documentation for systemd and its utilities is second to none.
What little I've seen of systemd's user/sysadmin documentation leads me to believe that it is okay. I also understand that documentation is often the least interesting part of any project, and often sorely neglected.
However. Everyone I've heard of that tests out the Systemd Cabal's claim that
"Systemd is not monolithic! Systemd is fully documented and modular, so any sufficiently skilled programmer can replace any and all parts of it with their own implementation."
by attempting to make a compatible reimplementation has failed at their task [1] and reported that the internals documentation is woefully insufficient.
When you're writing software for general consumption, good user documentation is a requirement. After all, if noone can figure out how to use your system, "noone" will use it.
When you also claim that you go out of your way to provide enough documentation to allow others to understand the relevant parts of your internals, and be able to write compatible, independent implementations of your software, the quality of the documentation about your internals is now in scope for evaluation and criticism.
