[GitHub] [ratis] drriguz commented on a diff in pull request #696: RATIS-1639. Added getting started document

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drriguz commented on code in PR #696:
URL: https://github.com/apache/ratis/pull/696#discussion_r929430099


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ratis-docs/src/site/markdown/index.md:
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 # Apache Ratis
 Apache Ratis is a highly customizable Raft protocol implementation in Java.
-Raft is a easily understandable consensus algorithm to manage replicated state.
-Apache Ratis could be used in any Java application where state should be replicated between multiple instances.
+[Raft](https://raft.github.io/) is an easily understandable consensus algorithm to manage replicated state. 
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+The Ratis project was started at 2017 as an incubator project, and has graduated at Feb 17, 2021. Originally, Ratis is built for using Raft in [Apache Ozone](https://ozone.apache.org) where Ratis is used to replicate raw data and to provide high availability, and the correctness and performance of Ratis has been heavily tested with Ozone. 

Review Comment:
   @szetszwo Thanks for reviewing! Already updated.



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