On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < [email protected]> wrote:
> I don’t know if it fits the scope of the proposal, but I think it’s > important because we need to get inter-ownCloud sharing right. I > highly disagree with this part: »Only admins can create sharing > between two clouds. (This was decided after discussions with the > mentor).« (– who is the mentor, I can’t find any info in the > proposal). > Bartek (aqu on freenode) and I discussed on this and he said giving so much power to a user wouldn't be a good idea. Unfortunately, Bartek didn't get selected as a mentor for this project. Right now Robin Appelman (Icewind) is my mentor. > > Inter-sharing should, at least from the user perspective outside a > company setting, _not_ be the choice of the admin. Like with Diaspora > and Email, you should just be able to put in [email protected] > – then he gets a notification, and can either accept or reject the > shared file. > That was the exact original idea I had proposed. > > Then in your personal settings you could set your real name and photo > for instance, so other people can find you easier (only if you want, > of course, default is private). Then if Frank, who is on a different > instance than me, already shares with someone on my ownCloud, his data > will be cached on my ownCloud and when I type in »Fra…« I will get > Frank suggested, and because he set his photo, I can even verify it’s > him (of course it will also show the Webfinger user address so I can > verify it without photo and without name). > > All this, the photos, names and use of Webfinger will prepare ownCloud > for being more webby, lay the foundation for more collaborative and > social aspects and make federation easier. Otherwise the users are at > the admins mercy even more. – yes I know, the plan is for everyone to > have their own ownCloud, but it’s not going to happen like a snap – > there will first be providers, and they should not be the only ones to > choose if communication is possible. Of course there should be an > option to deactivate it (by it being an app) but this would mainly be > relevant in a company setting, not a public instance or provider. > Maybe we can have both the options, although that would go beyond the scope of GSoC. So after GSoC I can continue to work on extending it to include user sharing as well. > > > Also, are you in our IRC channel already – #owncloud-dev on freenode? > That way we can talk and get to know each other much better. > > dpac on freenode. I'm already on that channel since last few days. > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Deepak Mittal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Deepak, > >> > >> very cool. Do you have a architecture document available somewhere or a > >> concept paper how you want to implement this? > >> > >> Thanks a lot. > > > > > > Hi Frank, > > > > You can check out my GSoC proposal > > at > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/dpacmittal/18002 > . > > This is basically how I'm implementing it although few things might > change > > during actual implementation. > > > > > >> > >> > >> > >> Frank > >> > >> > >> On 26.05.2012, at 06:57, Deepak Mittal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I'm writing an app for Inter-ownCloud Sharing as a part of GSoC 2012. > I > >> > began coding around 4 days back and I have successfully implemented > pairing > >> > two different owncloud instances. However, due to lot of points of > failure, > >> > I'm running into lots of nested if-else blocks. And the code is > already > >> > starting to get a bit messy. It'd really help if someone could review > my > >> > code and give me suggestions/tips/pointers to write better code. > >> > > >> > The link to my app on gitorious: > >> > > https://gitorious.org/~dpacmittal/owncloud/dpacmittals-owncloud/trees/master/apps/interoc_sharing > >> > > >> > Thanks :) > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Regards, > >> > Deepak Mittal, > >> > Twitter - @dpacmittal > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Owncloud mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Deepak Mittal, > > Twitter - @dpacmittal > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Owncloud mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > -- Regards, Deepak Mittal, Twitter - @dpacmittal
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