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Explain what "Swarms" are in the "Observe peers" section. #249

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Mr0grog opened this issue Aug 24, 2018 · 4 comments
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Explain what "Swarms" are in the "Observe peers" section. #249

Mr0grog opened this issue Aug 24, 2018 · 4 comments
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Mr0grog commented Aug 24, 2018

We should have a short concept doc about what a “swarm” is in IPFS.

Concept docs are concise, high-level descriptions of various core concepts in IPFS. They should strive to answer:

  1. What is this?
  2. How does it relate to the rest of IPFS?
  3. How can (or should?) you use it? (Note: sometimes the answer is that you should understand it, but not use it. Bitswap is probably a good example.)
  4. Where do you go to learn more?
  5. What is the current state of affairs?
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Mr0grog commented Aug 24, 2018 •
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Should this also address “peers” and “peer IDs,” or should those be in a separate doc? (Edit: don’t know what I was thinking; we already have a separate issue for that, and the two concept docs should probably link to each other: ipfs-inactive/docs#96.)

@jessicaschilling jessicaschilling changed the title Write concept doc about Swarm Concept Doc: Swarm Jul 26, 2019
@jessicaschilling jessicaschilling changed the title Concept Doc: Swarm Create concept doc on swarms Sep 19, 2019
@jessicaschilling jessicaschilling changed the title Create concept doc on swarms [NEW CONTENT] Swarms in IPFS Dec 16, 2019
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johnnymatthews commented Apr 17, 2020 •
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This issue is a couple years old now. Are swarms different to IPFS cluster? @hsanjuan any ideas?

@johnnymatthews johnnymatthews changed the title [NEW CONTENT] Swarms in IPFS Swarms in IPFS Apr 17, 2020
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A swarm is essentially the name that is given to the libp2p-based network formed by libp2p peers (ipfs among others). I am not sure where this fits in our docs, probably anywhere where we describe what a peers is, but should be something short.

@hsanjuan hsanjuan transferred this issue from ipfs-inactive/docs May 22, 2020
@johnnymatthews johnnymatthews changed the title Swarms in IPFS Explain what "Swarms" are in the "Observe peers" section. Jun 18, 2020
@johnnymatthews johnnymatthews added dif/easy Someone with a little familiarity can pick up effort/hours Estimated to take one or several hours kind/enhancement A net-new feature or an improvement to an existing feature P3 Low: Not priority right now status/inactive No significant work in the previous month topic/docs Documentation labels Jun 18, 2020
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There's a libp2p issue that covers this.. Closing :)

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