[sytse]

I think that not having a good production setup for an open source project is a combination of a couple of things:

1. Documentation is not satisfying work, maybe because it is as absolute as code?

2. Contributing documentation doesn't get you as much recognition as code

3. If you set it up differently yourself there is no need to maintain a fork (unlike code changes)

4. For open source projects that are company backed there is a perverse incentive to keep the documentation vague if they only make money though support