More doc is always welcome. I have no advice on the format/contents though. You should probably write on whatever you own use cases are.
Jsyk, the "quickest route to a full node" is simply: https://camlistore.org/launch/ On 13 May 2016 at 13:04, Simon B. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm offering help to write "getting started" documentation. As a programmer, > I'm still not using camlistore even locally. > I'd like to target slightly technical users, but at least for now I'd try to > avoid attracting non-technical users that could loose data and complain / > need a lot of support. > > Is someone working on making documentation on the easiest possible way to > get started? I've googled, read the github and website and some of the > maillist, but still can't find a kind of getting started guide that goes > through everything camlistore. A guide with big font, nice pictures, bullet > points and such things. (I also noticed that camlistore.org reminds very > much of etherpad.org one or two major design/text remakes ago. I was part of > Etherpad's first remake.) > > The guide I'm imagining would list step-by-step information for: > * installing camlistore locally (Win, OSX, popular distros) and mounting > virtual disks > * adding local dumb blob-storage (an attached USB-disk or SD-card or > whatever) > * adding remote dumb blob-storage (AWS?) > * adding remote full nodes on (scaleway, RPi ?) > > I'd like this kind of guide to be only practical, with the singular goal of > making the reader a daily active user of camlistore. I'd probably make some > PRs, if I became an active user myself. > > I read the post from April on using scaleway. It really seems to be the > quickest route to a full node. Before committing I'd want to have an idea of > my alternatives. Probably compare that to buying NAS-units that can connect > with simple USB and show up as simple FAT32 disks. To get an appropriate > perspective on camlistore vs KISS and deflect some users and use-cases. > > Thoughts / encouragement on this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Camlistore" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
