I’ve started coding it a bit, and I’m getting to a point where there is a huge non-programming task to do, that would be reasonably easy to get done by many folks at a time.
The task is essentially to describe all of Smoothie’s configuration options : their name, a short description of what they are, their type, their unit, and a more complete few-lines documentation.
Note that you don’t even need to know GIT : If you have a github account, you can edit the file directly from the github website.
If anybody wants to help with this, please let yourself known. It’s relatively easy, and it will help a lot make something really awesome for everybody.
@Arthur_Wolf simply you want to extract smoothie config options to a HTML code. It might be fairly easy with a simple copy paste combo. I can’t promise as I’m busy nowadays but i’ll try.
@Mert_G It’s more than that. We also need add some explanation about what the configuration option is for ( think " how would I explain it to somebody who has never used anything like smoothie " ), and some information about the option itself, like “is it a number” etc
@Rene_Jurack I need that, but in the format mentionned on github, and with more detailled/beginner-friendly explanations of each. And with some formatting/validation information for each value.
Would be easier to join, if you would have listed all available options already. And then, link http://smoothieware.org/configuration-options in the description for a little guideness.
I was thinking today how nice it would be to have a configuration workflow tools for Smoothie newcomers (something like Repetier has). This project sounds like a control panel rather than that, but it would be a good start.
@Chris_Brent The plan is for the project to include wizard-like configuration tools for everything.
It’ll also have a “raw” configuration tool for more advanced users, and that’s what the “definitions” files is for.
But most definitely planning on doing simpler stuff too.
I originally had a project called “mousse”, but the architecture was too complex and the project too ambitious so I scrapped it in favor of fabrica. But I had started doing config tools there too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwcuq5O-mc
I’ll fork and try to add it, but can’t get to it until this weekend. If you don’t get to it, I’ll send you a pull request.. Maybe write a parser to import machine configurations from other hosts, like simplify 3d etc
Why can’t we have such description in code or just included in the smoothie repository so anyone can build on such stuff? Many people talked about this regarding undocumented G/M-codes that needs to be kept in sync with wiki manually. It doesn’t make any sense to create a HTML page - that should be generated from something…
