A question that often arises is 'how do we know when a language is documented?' That is, what is the minimum amount of documentation that is satisfactory? This is impossible to answer. There re many factors that dictate the extent to which materials can be recorded, how many spoken and written materials. The quality of the documentation, the analysis and the associated metadata are equally important. A 'comprehensive' documentation of a language with no metadata is much less useful than a tagged corpus a quarter its size. A documentary team of four people will not be able to produce the materials that a team of 15 could, but a team of four highly dedicated and well-trained people mat produce a set of materials which are much more appropriate and more useful to the community.