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If you are reading Tahoe-LAFS documentation
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If you are reading Tahoe-LAFS documentation at a code hosting site or
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from a checked-out source tree, the preferred place to view the docs
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is http://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. Code-hosting sites do
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not render cross-document links or images correctly.
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If you are writing Tahoe-LAFS documentation
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To edit Tahoe-LAFS docs, you will need a checked-out source tree. You
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can edit the `.rst` files in this directory using a text editor, and
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then generate HTML output using Sphinx, a program that can produce its
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output in HTML and other formats.
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Files with `.rst` extension use reStructuredText markup format, which
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is the format Sphinx natively handles. To learn more about Sphinx, and
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for a friendly primer on reStructuredText, please see Sphinx project's
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documentation, available at:
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https://www.sphinx-doc.org/
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If you have `tox` installed, you can run `tox -e docs` and then open
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the resulting docs/_build/html/index.html in your web browser.
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Note that Sphinx can also process Python docstrings to generate API
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documentation. Tahoe-LAFS currently does not use Sphinx for this
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purpose.
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Organizing Tahoe-LAFS documentation
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Tahoe-LAFS documentation has been a mishmash of many things that are
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useful to many people, with little organization, and, as a result,
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confusing and hard-to-approach. We are working on improving this.
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It is reasonable to expect that documentation files in "docs"
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directory will serve different and possibly overlapping groups of
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readers, so the top-level sections are organized based on the likely
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needs of those almost-distinct groups. We have:
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(a) New and experienced users of Tahoe-LAFS, who mainly need an
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operating manual to the software. Notes under the section
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titled "Getting Started with Tahoe-LAFS" will be the most useful
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to them.
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(b) Project contributors, both new and experienced. This group
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includes developers, issue reporters, and documentation writers.
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It will help this group to have the project's processes and
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guidelines written down. The section titled "Contributing to
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Tahoe-LAFS" is meant to be useful for this group.
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(c) Those who want to know various implementation details about the
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project. This group might include people who are mainly curious
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and those who want change things. We could expect an overlap
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between members of group (a) who want to know more and members
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of group (b). The sections titled "Tahoe-LAFS in Depth" and
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"Specifications" could be of interest to them.
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(d) There's also the broader community. This includes people with a
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general interest in Tahoe-LAFS project, and people from groups
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both (a) and (b). They will find "Notes of Community Interest"
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useful.
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When you add new content or remove old content to Tahoe-LAFS docs, it
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would be helpful to organize your changes with the above-stated groups
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of readers in mind.
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This directory also contains old notes that are mainly of historical
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interest, under the section titled "Notes of Historical Interest".
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Those could be removed someday, after sufficient consideration.
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