As someone who's working on a Stratum implementation right now, I must say this is a VERY narrow view of reality.

I've been using the following resources to gain my knowledge of the protocol:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55842.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108533.0
http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining
https://www.btcguild.com/new_protocol.php

Notice how 50% of those links were forum posts   

But, I'm guessing none of the discussion here counts as documentation either and can be entirely ignored