The question wasn't "is it harder to figure out what the code does by reading it than reading well written documentation?", it was "how can you submit a pull request for documentation when there’s no documentation for you to understand the code with", and the obvious answer is: by reading the code—in fact, that's ongoing work by some of the project's contributors.
The question wasn't "is it harder to figure out what the code does by reading it than reading well written documentation?", it was "how can you submit a pull request for documentation when there’s no documentation for you to understand the code with", and the obvious answer is: by reading the code—in fact, that's ongoing work by some of the project's contributors.