Hello Owncloudians, I'm Tomaz Canabrava, student of Computer Science in the Federal Institute of São Paulo and a long time KDE Contributor.
I Wanna try to apply for GSoC doing the Large File Sync on Owncloud - below is my proposal. I understand that there is the "two patches rule" to be part of OwnCloud summer of code, and I already installed the code - but currently I'm on vacation without a computer, I'm getting home tomorrow and I'll start doing this. Thanks for your time. Tomaz Canabrava -------- Large File Sync Motivations: Currently OwnCloud doesn't handle well binary data or large files, a single bit difference can make a huge impact on data usage over the network, for the entire file needs to be re-uploaded to the server instead of changing just a few chunks of bits. A few applications already implement the sync for any file, for instance rsync and dropbox clients. Time Table: 2 days - study the different file sync architectures and approaches on rsync 2 days - study the data architecture on OwnCloud 4 - 5 days - implement a proof of concept, local, php sync server / c++ client 2 - 3 days - with the knowledge gained by the proof of concept, create a more comprheensive architecture that can fit the current OwnCloud to replace the current file upload mechanism. 1 week - implement the first draft on owncloud, still using the c++ client created for testing purposes 2 weeks - implement the needed parts on the owncloud client side and fix bugs on the server side. with one client working correctly, then I would start changing every client to correctly handle the file updates: android, iOS and Desktop, wich would probably eat the rest of the time table, leaving time for bug fixes and code cleanup.
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