Afaik RedHat pays their documentation engineers and QA engineers very well, since they consider those roles to be essential to the product from the customer's expectations. It's a perspective rarely shared by other companies though.

> "It's a perspective rarely shared by other companies though."

This is not the worst case scenario. Some places will sensationally hire QA/Writers, hailing their importance, and lay them off at the first sign of cost cutting.

I lost one other recommendation there…you want better documentation? Do not reject documentation which accurately documents problems in your OSS project/product. Rejecting pull requests because they (accurately) document a solution to a problem posed by your product will only guarantee the writer will never submit another documentation pull request.

Not that that's happened to me.

<< Technical writing is dead as a profession.

Hmm, I couldn't disagree more!

<< Too many companies expect technical writers to be as savvy, or more, as their developers, but for lower pay, less respect, and zero political power.

Hmm, I couldn't agree more!