[tahoe-dev] Newbie help

[Dimitri Yioulos]

--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [tahoe-dev] Newbie help
> To: tahoe-dev at allmydata.org
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 10:07 AM
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:54 AM,
> Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've read most of the documentation.
> 
> But did you find these two?
> 
> http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/running.html
> http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/using.html
> 
> I'm not sure if they are easy enough to find.
> 
> >  Understand that I feel it's pretty good.  However,
> I'm not always able to grasp what are probably simple
> tasks.  I've figured out a good many through
> trial-and-error.  I do think, however, that a basic
> "how-to" that walks one from installing tahoe through to
> backing up and restoring would be useful.  It would be kind
> of a "quick start" how-to, with other docs such as CLI.txt
> serving to fill in more details.  Just a thought.
> 
> I think running.html and using.html should fill that
> role.  Either you
> didn't find them or they didn't have enough information to
> give you a
> good start.  Perhaps the two of them should be merged
> into a single
> "quick start" document?  If you could post actual text
> to include in
> the docs that would help a lot.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Zooko
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I'll do my best.  I'd certainly like to contribute, if I can.

Dimitri