[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-658) Create a Getting Started/Try it now documentation path

2015-06-04 Thread Aldrin Piri (JIRA) 

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Aldrin Piri commented on NIFI-658:
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Additionally, this guide should then provide a choose your own adventure of 
links and explanations on how people can get additional information pointing to 
the existing dev/admin guides.

 Create a Getting Started/Try it now documentation path
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 Key: NIFI-658
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-658
 Project: Apache NiFi
  Issue Type: Improvement
  Components: Documentation  Website
Reporter: Aldrin Piri

 I think we need to call out how to get NiFI running. 
 Right now, the only path that is immediately obvious is to do the development 
 path which is out of the realm of many people who may be nothing more than 
 just users and/or want to sample the application before delving in further.
 Otherwise, your path is to go through nifi docs and find your way to the 
 admin guide just to run the latest release.
 We are making a more arduous path than necessary and subjecting users to a 
 path that may have no relevance to their intended usage.



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[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-658) Create a Getting Started/Try it now documentation path

2015-06-04 Thread Joseph Witt (JIRA) 

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Joseph Witt commented on NIFI-658:
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100% on board Aldrin!

Our getting started page should morph to support two personas

1) I am someone who wants to pull down a convenience binary, unpack this thing, 
fire it up, and see what it can do.  Help me quickly!

2) I am a developer.  I am really curious about the code.  I want to build it.  
Be able to tweak it.  Show me what i need to do to prep my environment and do a 
full build.

Right now we are only addressing the needs of the second persona. 

Thanks
Joe

 Create a Getting Started/Try it now documentation path
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 Key: NIFI-658
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-658
 Project: Apache NiFi
  Issue Type: Improvement
  Components: Documentation  Website
Reporter: Aldrin Piri

 I think we need to call out how to get NiFI running. 
 Right now, the only path that is immediately obvious is to do the development 
 path which is out of the realm of many people who may be nothing more than 
 just users and/or want to sample the application before delving in further.
 Otherwise, your path is to go through nifi docs and find your way to the 
 admin guide just to run the latest release.
 We are making a more arduous path than necessary and subjecting users to a 
 path that may have no relevance to their intended usage.



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