There is a post on Reddit to gather more opinions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/896uex/open_question_how_can_mozilla_improve_their/?st=JFK250WE&sh=bfe16b42
I’m just hoping to increase interactions between the Mozilla Sync-dev team and the community. I hope it is both helpful and fruitful. Thanks! On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:51 AM Elmar Knipp <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 03.04.2018 um 02:20 schrieb Mark Hammond: > > [...] > > > What we can improve is the documentation for what is needed to run Sync > > 1.5, but we really need feedback on what specifically is lacking here - > > we do know many people have successfully used the documentation to > > self-host Sync 1.5, so where the docs are lacking isn't immediately > > obvious to us. > > What I missed is a document with a bird view about the needed > components; e.g. the relationship between the sync server and the > account server. > > By accident I found the really helpful blog post > > https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/05/08/firefox-accounts-sync-1-5-and-self-hosting/ > , > but would expect such an introduction in the official docs. > > Maybe this is a good starting point to improve the docs. > > > If you have any other actionable ideas for how we can improve the > > situation for Sync self-hosters, please feel free to share them too. > > The current documents assume too much inside knowledge about the system. > Please read it with the eyes of a novice which has a general > understanding of synchronisation. > > I do not want sound aggressive, but I can only second James Sundquist's > statement. I have setup a lot of systems in my professional life and I > am experienced reading such HowTos and tutorials. But I have never seen > such poor didactical docs. Again, please see this as constructive critic. > > Elmar > > P.S.: I had setup 1.1 a few years back in 30 minutes. Then 1.5 came out > and I simply was unable to follow the docs. Finally, since 4 weeks, I > have sync server 1.5 running, but still depend on the account management > provided by Mozialla due to lack of time to go through the (bad) docs. I > tried again and ended up only with the feeling of frustration :-( > _______________________________________________ > Sync-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev >
_______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
