TiKV whitepaper

[emilyalbini]

PingCap is interested in writing a whitepaper on their use of Rust in the TiKV project. A draft is done, and we need to move the whitepaper to templating.

Item added by before we transitioned to this issue tracker for our agenda.

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[emilyalbini]

@skade and @nrc are working on editing the whitepaper.

An issue was raised with the way the whitepapers are currently produced. The template for them is a Word document that doesn't work with the online editor, so you need to have an actual desktop Word license to edit whitepapers. This prevents a lot of people from contributing.

An open question during the meeting was if it's worth rewriting the template in a more contributor-friendly format.

[steveklabnik]

update this week: @nrc has gotten access from @skade

[steveklabnik]

No update this week

[steveklabnik]

No updates this week.

[steveklabnik]

No updates this week.

[nrc]

I've started some editing this week. I intend to work on this some more over the next week or so.