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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:52:28AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 2/25/2017 11:28 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:04:46AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> On 2/24/2017 5:22 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> >>> On 2017-02-23 01:29 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> >>>> The docs are not quite ready yet,
> >>>
> >>> Documentation is (almost) always the last thing to get written or
> >>> updated. I was making use of the file formats document while working on
> >>> a project of mine to convert schematics from another program in to one
> >>> that can be read by Kicad. I found a lot of issues with the docs.
> >>>
> >>> I was told Wayne maintains that document. I'll be emailing him to find
> >>> out what the procedure is for providing information about the changes
> >>> needed.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I do not maintain nor did I write any of the file format documents.  I
> >> believe JP wrote them and maintains them.  I will try to do a better job
> >> when I implement the new schematic and symbol library file formats but I
> >> cannot promise anything.  I fully intended on writing the new board and
> >> footprint library file formats but I just couldn't find the time so JP
> >> graciously stepped up and wrote them for me.  Now that I am project
> >> leader, I have even less time for such endeavors.
> > 
> > I still think you should just put them in the repo with the code, and
> > start requiring people to edit them when they change anything about the
> > format. Much easier for you than having to maintain them yourself. Just
> > require proper versioning so that there is a format document version
> > corresponding to every format version.
> 
> I'm OK with that as long as we can reformat them to markdown to match
> our current developer documentation.  This way it gets automatically
> generated and uploaded to the website.

I'll happily convert them to Markdown. Send me the most recent versions
just to make sure I've got the right documents.

> 
> > 
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >>
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