User Documentation

It's just that I don't know what is confusing and what would be better. I'm too close to Wekan and know Wekan docs too well to understand how to improve it. Some outsider like you will see it much better.

Problem is not getting community to grow, it already grows all the time. Problem is getting amount of documentation and code contributions to grow.

Although, with new Wekan releases happening every day, with new features and fixes, it's kind of a lot already.

I know! so simple... not sure why it took so long. I've setup many dozens of complex services so I don't think it was on my end. I'll try to plot/map my experience to shed some light on the new comers experience. I might write what I would consider an easy to follow install tutorial for consideration.

My experience:

1. found Wekan (yay) and scanned rest docs at https://wekan.github.io/api/v4.81/#wekan-rest-api
2. Looked for install instructions at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Developer-Documentation (bit dumb I know but this was the first reference to docs I saw)
3. Got redirected form the home page here. https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Platforms - Got confused if docker-compose was viable, still didn't see instructions how to start it.
4. Briefly looked at starting my own MangoDb server as I thought I had to do that separately.
5. tried following instructions here https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/AWS but the docker-compose.yml link was broken. https://github.com/wekan/wekan-mongodb
6. eventually found the compose file in the main git-hub repo tentatively used that instead hoping it would work.
7. Googled around for ages looking for default name and password as https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/AWS has no links to the "Add-User" documentation and I wasn't clever enough to find it on my own.
8. setup an account, and recieved the apparent expected 501 error so assumed it wasn't working.
9. found this tutorial hoping it would include something relating to default passwords/users https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-wekan-installation/ managed to get it working, unsure if the manual db manipulation was really important or not.
10. was happy to get wekan working! but it was late by now so had to wait till the next day to test out it's features.

Before I started with Wekan I tried Retya. There install process was arguably more complicated, but way easier due to their bouncing ball style documentation.

https://restya.com/board/docs/ - Easy to navigate documentation https://restya.com/board/docs/install-restyaboard-docker/#0 - Super simple install steps.

I suppose being a commercial company they can pay someone to look after documentation, but it is a good example for us.

I think a tutorial style getting started/installed workflow/document would be great. Make it impossible to miss on the git-hub home page. It need to cover or at least link to everything from docker-compose.yml to login and even creating your first board.

Maybe Restya docs looks better, but Restya license is worse. I prefer Wekan, but I'm biased.

I do provide Commercial Support for Wekan at https://wekan.team/commercial-support/ , that's commercial enough for me. Wekan is Open Source and Free Software with mostly MIT licensed code.

I'm happy enough with those that see the real value of Wekan, and contribute code and docs.

I do write new code to Wekan daily.

@xet7 Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say Restya is better, I don't think it looks better and there licencing was WAY to restrictive for open source use in my opinion, they have just nailed the "getting-started" experience. I hope what I shared was somewhat helpful.

List of Restya docs at https://restya.com/board/docs/ is not categorized in any way. It's confusing.