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Make the user aware of the parameters generation #2008

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schomatis opened this issue Feb 16, 2019 · 3 comments
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Make the user aware of the parameters generation #2008

schomatis opened this issue Feb 16, 2019 · 3 comments
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C-docs Category: Documentation P2 Medium - we should get to this soon

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@schomatis
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schomatis commented Feb 16, 2019

Both in terms of computer resources and user's time. A note should be added in the Getting Started guide. And if possible, provide instructions for the user to download them instead, through paramfetch (if that tool is meant for the normal user).

This can be very frustrating for a new user excited to try Filecoin for the very first time and stumbling upon a very expensive computation for which it wasn't notified of nor it understands its motivation.

See #1998 as an example.

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anorth commented Feb 18, 2019

We don't intend users to need to generate the parameters, this is a (hopefully brief) interim. See #1975.

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I see, but this interim exists as of today (even if it will hopefully be solved soon), so maybe it's still worth adding a note to the user testing Filecoin now.

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Thanks to PR #1975, we now download params instead of generating them, so I'm closing this.

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