It sounds interesting to me! Then, I think it's time to apply for the KDE season. I finish my university exams at the end of June, so until then I couldn't spend much time on the project. But from the beginning of July, I could work almost full time on it. If you are still interested in being my mentor, let me know.
Looking for hearing from you soon!! Best regards 2011/5/4 Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> > On Monday 02 May 2011 21:54:31 Antonio José Gallo Sánchez wrote: > > We wrote the file manager using vaadin <http://www.vaadin.com>, so it > was > > pretty easy since it's coded in java. I don't know very much about PHP, > but > > I think it's, at least, less readable. > > > > For the versioning, we thought on using git (but a java-git binding was > > never done, like the versioning interface on the file manager), but I've > > seen that you are thinking on coding a whole new protocol for the syncing > > job. Why don't use git instead? > > It's not really a new protocol. SyncML is a standard, and, besides the > other > libraries, there is a pretty good piece of software (AGPLv3) written in > Java > that can act as a server: Funambol. Using git would be awesome for > versioning > but it is pretty inefficient when you want to store lots (as in >500MB) of > binary data. > > One of the main challenges for implementing syncing features into ownCloud > is > to find a good enough solution to act as a server for synchronization. I > would > very much value your experience in Java software to see if we can > successfully > integrate and distribute the GPL funambol server with ownCloud and its > internal storage, or see how we can make the two co-exist, eventually > falling > back (where java is not available) on a PHP solution. Let me know if you're > interested! :) > > Bye, > -Riccardo > -- Antonio J. Gallo
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