Aaron,
It looks like you need to talk to Alexis that just announced Kinto, if
that's not happening already. Let's not build N competing solutions in
this space.
Fabrice
On 06/17/2015 09:01 AM, Aaron Wu wrote:
> Dear b2g friends,
>
>
> As you may know, one of the core pieces for the NGA Toolkit work is Data
> Sync. We did more discussion/research/analysis for these first two
> quarters and have some decisions, plans and WIP works which would like
> to share with you.
>
>
> As mentioned in previous threads, we are focusing our work based on
> three major concepts taken from the core of Mozilla's mission:
>
>
>
> - User choice
>
> We believe that users shouldn't be tied to a specific storage
> provider like in other platforms (iCloud on iOS, Drive on
> Android...), so we'd like to provide a solution where users can
> choose their preferred storage provider(s).
>
> - User privacy
>
> User privacy is key for us. Whatever we implement here should allow
> users to opt-in to encrypt the data on the client side and store it
> encrypted on the selected cloud storage provider.
>
> - User identity
>
> We want to use Firefox Accounts as the authentication mechanism for
> this service and link this account to the user selected cloud
> storage provider accounts.
>
>
>
> With these concepts in mind, we have split the work in two major parts:
>
>
>
> 1. Synchronization of Browser/System data
>
>
>
> This includes all the data that belongs to the OS (browser) itself.
> Things like the list of installed apps, bookmarks, browsing history,
> passwords, form data, addons, prefs, etc. We chose to use the
> existing Firefox Sync platform for synchronizing this kind of data.
> This is a long time requested feature and we are already (and
> slowly) working on adding this support for FxOS. If you want to dig
> a bit more about the technical aspects of this implementation you
> can check the slides at [1]. They might not say much by themselves,
> but they will be properly introduced at Whistler. Also, if you want
> to follow the progress of this implementation, you can take a look
> at this meta bug [2]
>
>
>
> 2. Synchronization of InApp data.
>
>
>
> This includes all the data that doesn't belong to the OS but to the
> web apps themselves. Things like contacts data, sms/mms, call log,
> alarms, in-app specific settings (i.e. email or calendar accounts
> configuration), music, photos and a big etc.
>
>
>
> Because this includes a big set of information to be synchronized we
> also split this in different parts:
>
>
>
> 2.1 File synchronization
>
>
>
> It is not the same to synchronize plain JSON documents than big
> media files. We need a solution to remotely store and
> synchronize media files. Among others, there's an interesting
> proposal to provide an Universal Storage API and a Virtual
> Storage Interface. We will present this at Whistler, but you can
> have a first taste of it at [3]
>
>
>
> 2.2 Document synchronization
>
>
>
> We'd like to provide a cross browser solution for web apps to
> synchronize their local databases in a way that fulfills the
> three major requirements that we presented above. For this part
> there are several existing tools that we can use to build such a
> solution like kinto [4], pouchDB [5], remotestorage.js [6], or
> cloud storage[7]. We are still working on figuring out what the
> best tool(s) is for this part.
>
>
>
> You can read a bit more about data synchronization on FxOS on the
> projects wiki [8] that we try to keep up to date.
>
>
>
> And last but not least, we will be having a two hours session to present
> what we've done so far at Whistler. We are looking for participation and
> feedback so if you have the chance, please come by and share your
> thoughts with us.
>
>
>
> Date/Time: 6/23 Wed. 1-3pm
>
> Venue: Westin - Alpine B
>
>
>
>
>
> [1] http://ferjm.github.io/fxos-sync-architecture/1-fxos-sync.html#/
>
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=824026
>
> [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/Cloud_Storage
>
> [4] https://github.com/mozilla-services/kinto
>
> [5] http://pouchdb.com/
>
> [6] https://github.com/remotestorage/remotestorage.js
>
> [7] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/Cloud_Storage
>
> [8] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS_Data_Sync
>
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> / The Data Sync Toolkit team
>
>
>
>
>
> Aaron Wu
> Engineering Project Manager, Mobile Device
> Mozilla Corporation
> cell: +886-955-361-456
> email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> skype: waaron2000
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Aaron Wu <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Here I would like to share what we are doing on data sync and cloud
> storage project, there are two topics covered.
>
> 1. Browser/System Data Sync
>
> For Browser/System specific data we chose to use the existing
> FirefoxSync platform. That will give users a way to backup
> Firefox OS systemdata like the list of installed apps, the
> browser history, their bookmarks, etc. and to access
> this data from any Firefox product (Desktop, Android, iOS, OS).
>
> * Offline support: Application can be executed offline
> and syncthe data automatically while it gets into the
> network environment.
> * Cross browser support: The web app data should be syncedeven
> among the different browser environments.
>
> 2. In-app Data Sync
>
> We can be grouped in below
>
> * Documents, including in-app specific settings or things
> like SMS, call history, alarms, etc.
> * Files, such as photos, music and other media.
>
> Two proposals for in-app data sync, not finalized yet.
>
> * Generic storage and storage provider proxy
>
> The Cloud Services team has been working on a generic
> storage service to allow 3rd party apps to store
> andsynchronize arbitrary data, attached to a Firefox
> account. They've also supported the idea of having an
> intermediate service that would act as a proxy for
> different storage providers.
>
> * Universal Storage API and Virtual Storage Interface (Cloud
> Storage)
>
> It is a mechanism to support resource accessing on
> user’s cloud storage for web apps
>
> A. General interface for cloud storage: We want to provide a
> general interface for web app developer to access different
> cloud storage. It means developer no need to maintain
> different cloud storage support in their apps anymore.
>
> B. Cache mechanism: We also provide the cache mechanism to
> speed up the file accessing.
>
> C. Cloud storage plugin system: This is a system to support
> storage providers who can apply their storage service on
> FirefoxOS.
>
> In Whistler, we will have a session for Data Sync and Cloud Storage.
> feel free to walk-in and contribute your thought :D
>
> Date/Time: 6/23 Wed. 1-3pm
> Venue: Westin - Alpine B
>
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Aaron Wu
> Engineering Project Manager, Mobile Device
> Mozilla Corporation
> cell: +886-955-361-456 <tel:%2B886-955-361-456>
> email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> skype: waaron2000
>
>
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