update(README).md
Add prominent sections to identify the existence and location of the GitBook documentation, and the active issue tracker.
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- Programmatic based storage access, i.e write to block devices from within your application instead of making system calls
- Storage unification to lift barriers so that you can start deploying cloud native apps on your existing storage without painful data gravity barriers that prevent progress and innovation
+# User Documentation
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+The official user documentation for the Mayastor Project is published here in GitBook format: [mayastor.gitbook.io](https://mayastor.gitbook.io/)
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+# Project Status
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+Mayastor is currently beta software. From Wikipedia: "it (beta software) will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software and speed or performance issues, and may still cause crashes or data loss."
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+The project's maintainers operate a live issue tracking dashboard for defects which they have under active triage and investigation. It can be accessed [here](https://mayadata.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10015). You are strongly encouraged to familisarise yourself with the issues identified there before deploying Mayastor and/or raising issue reports.
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Table of contents:
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- [Quickly deploy it on K8s and get started](/deploy/README.md)
