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RE: [Rainbowportal-documents] Overhaul of installation document

[Mark M. <mar...@ar...>]

Daniela wrote: "I agree that the installation document needs an overhaul.
... I would like to overhaul the installation document so that the reaction
to it is, "That sounds like a snap", "I can do that", etc. so that we don't
lose potential users at the starting line to a great experience. :)..."

Daniela, that is a great idea.  The current install doc (my fault since I
wrote it) is very daunting and would easily scare away some potential users.
Also, I suspect there are either new steps or unnecessary steps since this
doc was first created 20 months ago.

Welcome aboard, go for it.

Mark

RE: [Rainbowportal-documents] RE:Overhaul of installation document

[Mark M. <mar...@ar...>]

There is a fair amount of overlap between your three scenarios, but I think
with a bit of organization you can minimize content replication.
The consumer one is most important today in my mind.

Mark

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Subject: [Rainbowportal-documents] RE:Overhaul of installation document


Mark wrote: "Also, I suspect there are either new steps or unnecessary
steps since this doc was first created 20 months ago."

Mark, I agree with you. One can see that quite a few things have been added
or supercede info that is listed there. The time has come to give it a
shake down. :)

I was playing around with the idea of addressing three distinct
installation scenarios: 

1) consumer: user who wants to use official release and add-ins, 
2) developer: user who wants to use the CVS build(s) to modify and expand
the functionality, and
3) hosted: installing the Rainbow Portal with a third party service provider

What do you think? Or did I miss something?

Daniela

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