Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus
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* move old implementers' guide, add skeleton of new * Split the old implementers' guide into the new one's sections This is mostly a straightforward copying operation, moving the appropriate sections from the old guide to the new. However, there are certain differences between the old text and the new: - removed horizontal rules between the sections - promoted headers appropriately within each section - deleted certain sections which were in the old guide's ToC but which were not actually present in the old guide. - added Peer Set Manager to the new ToC * remove description headers It is redundant and unnecessary. Descriptions fall directly under the top-level header for any given section. * add stub description of the backing module * add stub description for the availability module * add stub description for collators * add stub description for validity * add stub description for utility * highlight TODO and REVIEW comments * add guide readme describing how to use mdbook * fix markdownlint lints * re-title parachains overview * internal linking for types * module and subsystem internal links * .gitignore should have a trailing newline * node does not have modules, just subsystems
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Preamble
This document aims to describe the purpose, functionality, and implementation of a host for Polkadot's parachains. It is not for the implementor of a specific parachain but rather for the implementor of the Parachain Host, which provides security and advancement for constituent parachains. In practice, this is for the implementors of Polkadot.
There are a number of other documents describing the research in more detail. All referenced documents will be linked here and should be read alongside this document for the best understanding of the full picture. However, this is the only document which aims to describe key aspects of Polkadot's particular instantiation of much of that research down to low-level technical details and software architecture.