AraCred Manual Deployment

This is how to deploy your own AraCred instance on manual mode.

Prerequisites

• A computer connected to the internet.
• An Ethereum address with some ETH.
• An Aragon DAO. (You'll need at least 0.1 ETH to deploy your own DAO)
• A GitHub account.
• An Infura account.

Step 0: Basic setup (Required)

• Fork AraCred
• Enable GitHub Actions
• Ethereum Key
• Infura Key
• GitHub Secrets

Fork the Aracred GitHub repo

We recommend creating unique accounts for your AraCred instance.

• A unique project email for project admin functions.
• A unique Infura account associated with said project email so that your API key is only used for AraCred stuff.
• A dedicated GitHub account tied to the project email for your GitHub API Token as well as to run GitHub actions.
• A unique Ethereum key with a very low amount of ETH to pay for gas fees for AraCred.

These measures separate security concerns while also decreasing the likelihood of poor performance due to rate limiting.

Step 1: Connect your DAO to AraCred (Required)

The DAO we used for this walkthrough is https://mainnet.aragon.org/#/aracreddeploymenttesting/

Create A DAO

• Start Here
• Step 1
• Step 2
• Step 3
• Step 4
• Step 5
• Step 6
• Step 7
• Step 8

Connect Your DAO to AraCred

• `dao.json`
• Get DAO Params
• Update `dao.json`

You'll need to update dao.json with the parameters of your new Aragon DAO.

Step 2: Run AraCred on GitHub repos (Optional)

If you don't want to connect AraCred to GitHub you'll have to remove all GitHub related info from project.json.

• Open project.json
• Add GitHub Repos
• Add GitHub Usernames

Step 3: Run AraCred on a Discord server (Optional)

If you don't want to connect AraCred to Discord you'll have to remove all GitHub related info from project.json.

• Enable Developer Mode
• Build A Bot
• Connect Bot to GitHub
• Connect Discord to AraCred
• Add Discord UserIDs to AraCred

Enable Discord Developer Mode

Step 4: Discord onboaring bot (Optional)

This is dependent on Step 3. If you don't want to use a bot to onboard or you're not using AraCred on Discord then you can just edit the identities section of project.json as described in the following sections.

• Deploy Onboarding Bot
• Setup Heroku
• Configure Dynos
• Talk To Bot

Go to the AraCred bot page and click the "Deploy To Heroku" button.

Step 5: Run Aracred on Discourse (Optional)

If you don't want to connect AraCred to Discourse you'll have to remove all GitHub related info from project.json.

• Add Discourse Forum
• Add Discourse Usernames

Note! You cannot have a trailing backslash in the Discourse forum URL.

This is good: "serverUrl": "https://community.your-community.org"

This will not work: "serverUrl": "https://community.your-community.org/"

Step 6: Visualize Your Cred Graph (Recommended)

Talk about setting up GitHub Pages on the docs folder, then explain a bit about how to read the graph.

• Enable GitHub Pages
• SourceCred Docs Mainpage
• View Cred Graph
• Post Cred Graph Link

Open Settings.

You'll need to enable GitHub pages to run on the docs folder.

GitHub will provide you with a link once the docs folder is successfully deployed.

Step 7: See your tokens being minted (Required)

Show how votes are created to mint tokens, and how if you set the threshold to 0 as long as no one objects they go right through.

• Check Open Votes
• Vote
• Check Open Votes Again

Open the DAO and open the Voting app.