Hi Tijoy,
On 19 Dec 2010, at 07:24, Tijoy Tom <tijoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> After reading notes blueprint i feel the notes utility we have in mind is
> not excatly real time ,it's rather non-real time groupware . Non-real time
> just means the collaborative sessions are less focused and longer in
> duration ( mira client may be offline for weeks).. A non-real-time groupware
> allow a group of users to work on the same note , however each user typically
> works on their own secion at their own pace. Implementation wise such a
> system would be easy than a real time collaborative groupware like google
> docs ..
>
> I just saw that we have plans for a collaborative editor too . It would make
> sense to define boundary between notes utility and real time collaborative
> editor since i assume we will use the same framework for both.
>
> Notes can be non-real time ( as i defined above)
> Editor has to be a real time collaborative editor
> If we build both it's worth looking at implementing a real time
> collaborative algorithm like dOPT by Ellis and Gibbs ( The google
> differential synchronisation Alan pointed out is based on dOPT )
You are correct - there are plans to have a separate Collaborative Editor, so
it might indeed be worth basing both off the same framework.
My questions for the meeting are:
- whether separating the two Utilities is simply duplication of the same
feature with different functionality, and
- whether it might make more sense to integrate the functionality of a
collaborative editor into the Notes Utility, so that when the user is Online it
is collaborative (involving real-time fuzzy diffs, etc.) and when the user is
Offline it is non-collaborative (which is where manual conflict handling comes
in).
Obviously, to integrate the functionality of both into one Utility would make
it MUCH more complicated to implement the Notes Utility, but it might make more
sense to the end-user. Otherwise, they might think: what is the point in having
two Utilities which perform the same basic thing (text editing) in two
different ways?
I look forward to discussing this in the meeting!
Regards,
Max
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