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Re: [PATCH] V5 upgrade documentation

 

​Bother.  po4a fixed this back in 2016 (
https://github.com/mquinson/po4a/commit/86f79e5d341ffcb62da9812101304c3dbb420cc6).
It looks like our doc server is running 0.47 (the fix didn't get released
until 0.49)

-S



Am Do., 28. Juni 2018 um 12:39 Uhr schrieb Wayne Stambaugh <
stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hey Adam,
>
> It will eventually be in the Kicad documentation at
>
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/stable/en/kicad.html
>
> There were some github macros that hauptmech added that broke the
> documentation build.  Apparently asciidoc was choking on them which is
> unfortunate as they made the github adoc conversion and viewing much
> nicer than our vanilla adoc files.  The commit to fix this was made
> 14hrs ago so it should be built soon.  Once the website is updated, you
> should be able to grab the link.  If you don't see it within 24 hours,
> please let me know an I will see if I can get it resolved.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 6/28/2018 1:32 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > Has it been decided where this documentation will live?  Is it some
> > place with a URL?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Adam
> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:24 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> hauptmech,
> >>
> >> I merged your patch and pushed the changes upstream to the kicad doc
> >> repo.  Thank you for the help with the documentation.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >>
> >> On 06/23/2018 08:54 PM, hauptmech wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Attached
> >>>
> >>> On 24/06/18 02:46, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>> Hey hauptmech
> >>>>
> >>>> For the most part I'm fine with these changes.  I think that the first
> >>>> two paragraphs (sentences) in the "Schematic Symbol Libraries" section
> >>>> of the version upgrade document could be merged into a single
> paragraph
> >>>> since they are related.
> >>>>
> >>>> If no one else objects to these changes, please create a merge request
> >>>> and I'll merge them into my repo and push them upstream today or
> >>>> tomorrow.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for the help.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Wayne
> >>>>
> >>>> On 06/23/2018 12:15 AM, hauptmech wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Wayne,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Really awesome that you are creating this documentation!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A couple thoughts:
> >>>>> * No one reads documentation unless they have to. Usually after
> stabbing
> >>>>> in the dark for a while.
> >>>>> * If one has to read documentation, one wants it short and to the
> point.
> >>>>> * Whatever basic knowledge you want the reader to have about how
> kicad
> >>>>> works, they won't have it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With that in mind I did a little example editing with the following
> >>>>> goals:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> * Link to any info that is a requirement for understanding this
> >>>>> document. If you can't find any existing documentation to link to,
> >>>>> that's a good clue that we need to fill in more info locally.
> >>>>> * Leave out as many extra words as possible.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> https://github.com/hauptmech/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/kicad/kicad_upgrading_from_v4_to_v5.adoc
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> https://github.com/hauptmech/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/eeschema/eeschema_symbol_library_table.adoc
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's not formatted as a patch because I only edited a few paragraphs,
> >>>>> and in those I rewrote things completely as an example of the above.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 23/06/18 04:10, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>>>> I pushed the v5 upgrade document to my personal repo[1] on git
> hub.  I
> >>>>>> made it part of the KiCad documentation but I don't have a strong
> >>>>>> opinion about where to add it.  This just seemed like the most logic
> >>>>>> place.  Please review it when you get a chance.  If you find any
> issues
> >>>>>> let me know, send me a patch, or submit a pull request against my
> doc
> >>>>>> repo.  Keep in mind that this document is only to detail the changes
> >>>>>> that will effect project compatibility with older versions of kicad
> and
> >>>>>> the perils of symbol remapping.  Thanks in advance for the help.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Wayne
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [1]:
> >>>>>>
> https://github.com/stambaughw/kicad-doc/blob/master/src/kicad/kicad_upgrading_from_v4_to_v5.adoc
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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