Development of a repository of polkadot error codes, their meaning and the action required by them.

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Dear Councillor,

I am proposing this Tip to Vega_life aka ccris02 on Riot for developing a repo to store errors and other output displayed by the polkadot binary. He also provides an easy to understand description of the problem and recommended actions (if applicable).

Quite often validator operators would post queries on Riot relating to errors that they've noticed on their nodes. Example:

2021-08-01 20:48:02 Fetching collation failed due to network error hash=0x40aae093c3a7983482487c1dab65caba9661336e9ae012f23d40ba39f656ecc0 para_id=Id(2007) peer_id=PeerId("12D3KooWFxLQp3BTc65R8RW7qeUQRg426N48se2sADWWFHSsriCb") err=Network(Timeout)

At times and in this particular case the error doesn't require any further action by the operator but this is only discovered after consultation.

This repo aids node operators to search for the error that they're presented with and quickly discover the recommended action. Others can also contribute as-to aid with the continued growth of the repository.

Regards,

Someone named Vega_life wants to create a place to store errors and other information for a computer program called Polkadot.
This will help people who operate Polkadot to quickly find solutions to problems they encounter.
Sometimes people ask questions about errors that don't need any action, so having this repository will save time.
Other people can also help add information to the repository to make it even better.
This will make it easier for people to use Polkadot and fix problems that come up.