#linuxcnc-devel Logs

Jan 11 2023

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03:47 PM CaptHindsight[m]: pere: this might impress someone looking for validation from a foundation
04:08 PM chris is now known as Guest612
04:23 PM pere: CaptHindsight[m]: really?
04:25 PM pere: smoe: hi. :)
04:25 PM pere: smoe: good to see you. :)
04:25 PM smoe: Hi pere, yip, I am still seeking some compatibility with IRC.
04:25 PM smoe: Great you are here. How much trouble would it be to update the .pot files for weblate?
04:26 PM pere: not much. I have delayed it, waiting for more doc PRs to make it to master.
04:27 PM smoe: There is not too much more coming. Have (against all my intentions) done a bit on French today (it is slightly addictive) and found just a few more corrections.
04:27 PM smoe: And that was in the glossary ;)
04:28 PM pere: :)
04:29 PM pere: no hope to have the last of your doc prs merged any time soon?
04:29 PM smoe: I decided not to care. Otherwise I go crazy. It is on @hansu.
04:30 PM smoe: I just know that those 99% of German being translated are not real and would like to know about how much there is to be reedited prior to the release - nothing dramatic.
04:34 PM pere: smoe: as long as the PRs are mergeable, we just need to wait for hansu to have some spare time.
04:53 PM pere: smoe: do you want to learn how to update the POTs?
04:54 PM smoe: Er - no, I am very happy that you are doing this.
04:54 PM smoe: This sounds awful, I need to apologize, but I am swamped with too many things already.
04:57 PM pere: ok
04:57 PM pere: I'll push weblate changes and lock weblate.
04:58 PM pere: oh, the weblate translations are broken.
04:59 PM pere: smoe: sadly the frensh translation cause build problems. can not merge and thus not update POT files.
05:00 PM smoe: Argh - that was me. Thank you for spotting that.
05:01 PM smoe: On my "once my mill works"-list: https://github.com/scottalford75/Remora
05:06 PM pere: smoe: interesting. perhaps something to get into mainland linuxcnc?
05:06 PM smoe: Andy mentioned this as a 2.9 goal.
05:10 PM smoe: I still hope for an idea for next Xmas as a neat product for some high-quality LinuxCNC family time - as a puzzle, basically. I have bought one of those 180 Euro kits from China and that was fun with that toy controller. That Remora board could be something in that direction.
05:12 PM pere: not enough into hardware to understand the implications.
05:17 PM smoe: No FPGA but microcontrollers, hence cheaper. And likely also easier to program.
05:41 PM smoe: htmldocs now builds (https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/2258)
05:43 PM pere: I'll look at it in the morning.
05:48 PM smoe: At pere and anyone else on this list to think along - there are a couple of challenges that are typical for students to address during their curriculum. Once of them that I think could be very nice to address via LinuxCNC is the "balancing pole problem" - nicely summarized on
05:48 PM smoe: https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/62a8df69-4a2c-407f-8040-5ac533fc2787/1/PDF%20(12%20pages).pdf. Other ideas may come to mind. The motivation is to get folks attracted to LinuxCNC without the risk of damaging the attached mill - by not attaching a mill but some playground.