Thanks Greg for inviting me to this mailing list. Looking at the archives it seems like a fun place to hang out. :-)
Bradley M. Kuhn worote: >Charles-H. Schulz wrote at 11:47 (EDT) on Wednesday: >>> As you said, Mono is for a different mailing list.(And after all, one >> could assume Tomboy could be rewritten without Mono in a few years) Snowy, the web service under discussion, is written in Python using Django. >> But the terms and the goals of the project are nice enough for me to >> try it out. Besides, reading the fine print it seems that certain >> things are done right: the project takes place inside the Gnome >> project, not as a pure Novell effort. AGPL denotes some real >> understanding of issues and not some marketing buzz (which has its own >> use, of course). Brad and I are Novell employees, and we worked on Snowy during a recent Novell Hackweek, but that's about the extent of Novell's involvement at this point. This is an upstream GNOME project that will require community participation to succeed, as we only have evenings and weekends to work on it. :-) > I have not looked in detail (other than what's mentioned in this > thread), but I would presume that if it is a web-based service, it > should be possible to make other implementations of both the client and > the server protocols. That is correct, the REST API is easy to consume and implement. The developers of sister apps like Conboy, a C-based Maemo port, and Tomdroid, a Java-based Android port have begun work on implementing client-side support. The Ubuntu One team has been invaluable in helping us to make a solid API, and they are already implementing it in their server product as well. There is also a Midgard server-side implementation (PHP). This is all within a couple of weeks of us announcing Snowy, so we're pretty stoked! > (And, if it were to be made federated, one could > write other server implementations in other languages to get > multi(programming)lingual federation going. :) Federation would be great, but is out of scope at this time unless somebody contributes it. > I agree that the choice of AGPL is a very good sign and shows a real > understanding of the issues. Thanks! Like the rest of you, we are getting tired of the sad state of affairs of free software in the web services world. > I'm also curious how this type of service > relates up to something like gobby, which has its own protocol. Collaborative editing is *very* out of scope at this time. :-) It would be wonderful, of course, and if we ever get to it we will probably look at using the gobby protocol. If anybody wants to get more involved in this project, please join our new mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/snowy-list Thanks for your interest, Sandy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
