The Unofficial XCSoar Manual

From XCSoar

When will there be documentation?

When will XCSoar support some better documentation? As soon as someone with the skill, resources, and time implements it. XCSoar isn't developed by a company. it's done by [/people/ volunteers]. Much of the development is done by people solving their own problems. At this stage we have no one working on better documentation and we are in need of help.

So what does it involve?

Writing documentation for XCSoar does not require any special computer skills. There is friendly developers on the email list to answer any tricky quetsions, and there is someone to do all the formatting and web work already (Scott Penrose). So you can do it in plain text.

Start by writing a short section and submitting it to the developer list. Project like these work on a slow, incremental process where you start with something small - get it out there for the users - and progress from there. Not only is a small bit of work easier to manage and complete, it is useful to others and even inspires more work from you and others.

Have a look at the [/install/ Installation] section first, on how to download and install XCSoar on your computer. It coveres the application well, however most map information has to be done by hand.

Move on to [/quick/ Quick start] to give you an overall view of what XCSoar does.

From there, you are now in the more advanced sections such as [/infoboxes/ Info boxes], [/settings/ Settings] and [/input/ Input Control].

Good luck, and have fun.