Concepts and words one needs to know in order to understand IPFS and Cluster

[kishansagathiya]

I don't think everyone would know what pinning is, probably those who are familiar with IPFS would. There is some value in adding a small note explaining what pinning is (probably some place prominent like home page).

[pkafei]

@kishansagathiya I think you are right. We would like to ultimately have a section of words and concepts in the Cluster documentation explaining things like pinning and peer set. Not sure if in this quarter we will add this to the documentation, but we are keeping a list of terms that require more explanation.

[hsanjuan]

require more explanation.

Let's put that list directly in this issue and avoid the redirection (and making people visit google to access that information).

[pkafei]

Here is a list of concept and words one needs to know in order to understand the IPFS and the IPFS Cluster Project. Feel free to add or correct definition:

Peerset: is the list of peers that make up a Cluster

Raft: One of the two consensus algorithms for Cluster

Swarm: Manages groups of connections to peers, and handles incoming and outcoming streamings