Integrators - Walkthrough supporting a new chain

[maoueh]

The goal of this task is to write the content required for an integrators to start integrating a new chain completely. The actual content still need to be worked on, it's a bit unclear the exact content we need, but here a rough plan I current have:

• Introduction asking to read the concepts & overview of the operators section to get a good understanding of the Firehose system
• Instrument a chain adding prints to stdout at the correct places (showcase dummy chain?)
• Clone firehose-acme and perform the necessary steps to configure it for this new chain (rm -rf .git, git init, Renaming acme and various strings, update some files).
• Data modelling by copying over the proto-acme to proto-<chain> and model the first pass of data.
• Make the node starts (updating nodemanager package to launch the binary with the correct flags)
• Update the console reader to construct the block format by parsing the various lines coming in.
• Perform a full working setup where Firehose is able to stream blocks out

[sosedoff]

Setting up new chain integration could be done via a bootstrap script: ie run the script, it'll ask the name of the new integration, specifics, etc. Think of it as a simple wizard script.

[maoueh]

Agreed, that's a good idea!