I'm currently taking on a documentation rewrite, I'm happy to tackle this one too.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Alexander Shorin (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2383?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14168660#comment-14168660 > ] > > Alexander Shorin commented on COUCHDB-2383: > ------------------------------------------- > > Better say: "Install instructions for 2.0 are missed in docs". > >> Installation instructions are wrong >> ----------------------------------- >> >> Key: COUCHDB-2383 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2383 >> Project: CouchDB >> Issue Type: Bug >> Security Level: public(Regular issues) >> Components: Documentation >> Reporter: Dale Harvey >> >> As someone who doesnt build couchdb a lot, when I do it is fustrating >> I visited http://couchdb.apache.org/, clicked contribute, there was a huge >> wall of text, I think the calls to action should be clearer. I found "Git >> workflow" but it links to an empty wiki page, I then decided to go back and >> through the documentation, I found >> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/install/mac.html, the dependencies are >> wrong, there is little information on installing from source. >> I then took a look at >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/INSTALL.Unix, it also had the >> wrong dependencies and no mention of how to start a dev cluster (./configure >> && make && python2 dev/run) > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.4#6332)
