Re: gEDA-user: PCB doc on wiki (was RE: Vias with zero clearance in PCB?)

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> --tutorials (crucial, e.g. gschem 2 pcb by Bill Wilson)

These, I fear, can only be written by people actually going through
the process for the first time.  Those of us with experience, and
those of us trying to document a procedure we're not using, will
likely skip stuff.

> --faq's (the pcb-tips wiki)

Someone who has the time and patience to monitor the mailing lists,
and distill the wisdom, is needed here.

> --manual (deep documentation of pcb)

This is where the developers should concentrate their efforts, because
nobody knows the software better than they do.

> A manual could be written thru a wiki

I would suggest that the PCB cvs is the best place for the reference
manual.  It really needs to be part of the same dev/test/release
process as the sources.  That was the goal of the EPS export - to make
this more feasible; the PCB files themselves are text and can be
stored in CVS without hassles; the Makefiles can run pcb in batch mode
to generate the kinds of images (png, eps, pdf) we need for the docs
(html, dvi, pdf).