Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Ajith Narayanan
Greetings! KiCad's documentation is in a standard source format (asciidoc) from which HTML/CSS are generated. Currently 'KiCad Help' just kicks off a browser pointing it to the local file(s) (e.g. /usr/share/doc/kicad/help/en/kicad.html). This is quite clean. In other words, KiCad already has a

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Jon Evans
We have decided to update the online documentation in a rolling fashion, meaning that new changes go "live" pretty quickly after being approved and merged. The version that is bundled with the application is a snapshot in time (at the point that software release was made). I think moving to an

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Tom A.
I don't have view at all, not really a software engineer so may take a bit of spamming with some questions that may be quite obvious to others. My first question is why in the software Help section is so dated and online version much more up to date? It seems you can access online version from

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Jon Evans
I don't personally see the point of spamming the list with back and forth about setting up Git/Gitlab, installing dependencies, etc. But, I am not opposed to it if others don't care. -Jon On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 12:02 PM Marco Ciampa wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:10:22AM -0500, Jon

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:10:22AM -0500, Jon Evans wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > I've been loosely coordinating documentation updates for V6. There are not > very many other people working on it. We'd be happy to have your help. > If you contact me off-list I can help you get set up to make changes

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Jon Evans
Hi Tomas, I've been loosely coordinating documentation updates for V6. There are not very many other people working on it. We'd be happy to have your help. If you contact me off-list I can help you get set up to make changes and we can figure out where you'd like to start. Best, Jon On Tue,

[Kicad-developers] V6 documentation

2022-01-18 Thread Tom A.
Hi all, I've been using KiCad daily for last couple of years and I think it's great project with a lot of potential. Congratulations on V6 release to everyone involved. I had few challenges with new version and found documentation being rather weak. Is there someone working on it (dedicated) or