Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Doc

Timestamp:

2007-07-10T22:37:03Z (17 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

new improved Doc page!

Doc

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 = Documentation =
 
- * [source:relnotes.txt the release notes], announcing the first public release on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists
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+== The Basics ==
  * [source:docs/architecture.txt architecture.txt], explaining the design decisions that have given the grid its current shape
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  * [source:roadmap.txt roadmap.txt], showing how the functionality has been incrementally improved so far, and what improvements we plan to make next
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  * [source:docs/codemap.txt codemap.txt], laying out the software design and the organization of the source code
 
- * TahoeIssues contains some discussion on open issues
+== The Parade of Release Notes ==
+ * [source:relnotes.txt@686 the release notes] announcing the first public release on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists
+ * [source:relnotes.txt@790 the release notes] announcing the second public release on June 6, 2007
+ * [source:relnotes.txt@864 the release notes] announcing the third public release on June 29, 2007, including the new mutable, shareable, private directories
+
+== Detailed Design Docs ==
+ * TahoeIssues/FileTree, explaining how mutable, shareable, private directories are implemented (which requires interesting crypto)
+ * TahoeIssues/PeerSelection, explaining how a Tahoe node chooses which other nodes to use for uploading and downloading files (which raises some unsolved issues in balancing scalability, robustness, performance, and simplicity)  
+ * TahoeIssues/FileEncoding, explaining how we turn files into shares, with verifiable hashes; This is mostly concerned with chunking and Merkle trees.
+ * TahoeIssues/ShareEncoding, explaining how we turn a chunk into shares: Reed-Solomon, FEC, that stuff
+