Alpha Testing

Summary - Testing Alpha 1

Alpha 1 Code has now been released, on or before 15.December 2016. Two main new features, 'Bitmark Storage' & 'Bitmark Passport' have been developed!

• Activity: Smoke Testing Alpha 1 code 15-18 December 2016.
• Activity: Feature Testing Alpha 1 toward Milestone Alpha 2 will take place in the period between 18 December to 21 January.

See Roadmap for more detail on Milestone.

Testing Alpha 1

Features should be ready for testing. Expected is alpha code for testing and bug fixing. Feature will include a decentralized passport, decentralized storage.

Having a server online or desktop computer would be useful to help testing. Instructions will be provided.

Features

• Bitmark Storage
• Bitmark Passport

Bitmark storage will include bitmark passport. Those two elements are part of the feature freeze.

In addition to this feature freeze, there will possibly be paid storage integration, depending on how much can be fit in and how much changes upstream, but that is not part of the feature freeze.

There is also the possibility of some basic facebook and google plus integration, depending on progress upstream. This is also not part of the feature freeze. An update on this will be given around the alpha 2 milestone (see roadmap)

Audience

Currently aimed at people running their own cloud storage or home storage that are able to understand running a server or follow instructions.

Pre requisites

• A server with some disk space is required to run bitmark storage.

• nodejs -- Version 6 or higher

• git

• (optional) having your own domain is an advantage

Instructions

Core

1. Clone the bitmark storage repo

   git clone https://github.com/project-bitmark/bitmark-storage && cd bitmark-storage

2. run

   npm install

3. run

   node bin/solid init

   to generate a config (or use a pre determined config and keys) to generate keys see the section below : generating keys Note: this is the hardest step -- visit slack for help -- see also answering the init questions below

4. install pm2 ( npm install -g pm2 )

5. run

   node bin/solid -v start

(Optional)

7. use pm2 to ensure the process restarts automatically

8. (optional) forward a port to the outside world if not already

9. (optional) if running on your home pc add a dyndns service like noip.com.

10. (optional) CNAME a domain to your storage server

11. (optional) remove SSL warnings using letsencrypt

Answering the init questions:

It is possible to use the defaults for most questions. Some notes:

Path to the folder you want to serve.

This is where you want to host files. Perhaps use ~/data/

Generating keys

There are two ways. 1 is locally

`openssl genrsa 2048 > ./privkey.pem`
`openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 3650 -key ./privkey.pem -subj '/CN=*.localhost' > ./fullchain.pem`

The second way is to use letsencrypt

Issue tracker

https://waffle.io/project-bitmark/bitmark-storage

Add your name to alpha testers beneath

• melvincarvalho (slack)
• brian (slack)
• maxlele (slack)