Re: Wave, article on why wave was not enough to use

2014-02-04 Thread Paul Thomas
The main reason is people didn't know how to make head of tails of it. The closest thing they could relate it to was chat, email, etc. Of course it was underwhelming because they didn't really get the significance of what they were seeing, because it just wasn't a ready replacement for their

Re: Wave: Distributed forum?

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Thomas
a project by programmers for programmers. It has barely started to solidify as a coherent project. I think we should give it some time.:) Nathan On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: It is different from a forum, however a forum like interface was exactly how I

Re: Wave: Distributed forum?

2012-01-05 Thread Paul Thomas
It is different from a forum, however a forum like interface was exactly how I would have got people interested. Instead of going about the wave way of doing thing an obscurities like blips, users didn't necessarily had to know any of that. You introduce it slowly, using what user are used

Re: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine

2011-10-28 Thread Paul Thomas
I wonder if its wire protocol can be made compatible with sharejs +1 From: Joseph Gentle jose...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2011, 23:02 Subject: Re: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine Hey, awesome. I wonder if its wire

Re: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Thomas
with the common ways people are used to communicating. So much of AC is specific to use case. Not having this limits your audience considerably. From: Thomas Wrobel darkfl...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org; Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, 27

Re: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Thomas
darkfl...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org; Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2011, 16:55 Subject: Re: Walkaround -- Wave on App Engine , it was nothing to do with advertising or just about the client. My point was thats its relative success did have to do

Re: Code - SVN

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Thomas
Funny I thought I that too, but decided not to post. From: Upayavira u...@odoko.co.uk To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tue, 6 September, 2011 21:53:42 Subject: Re: Code - SVN This is me, knowing nothing about Mercurial nor the Wave repo. But I wonder

Re: short version of how to get started using Apache Wave-In-A-Box

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Thomas
Yes there is too much outdated information in too many places. There should only be one official wiki on Apache. Google pages, should only refer to it. From: Daniel Wilkerson daniel.wilker...@gmail.com To: Yuri Z vega...@gmail.com Cc:

Re: Wave Web Site

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Thomas
2p In terms of saving time. I would go for wordpress. it is not some people's idea of elegant under the hood, I used to be cynical, but in practice it is the most versatile CMS, and has a wide selection of plugins, and is easy to develop.. Chances are you have everything you want. Joolma is

Re: Wave Web Site

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Thomas
I think they should keep the Apache CMS to meet the basic requirements, but as a focal point to pull everything together I don't see a problem with an external site done well. Interest need to be generated. At the moment through no fault the project is spread across several sites, and

Re: Wave Web Site

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Thomas
You could use another interface to generate content privately, the cached output could be upload as static html on Apache CMS. Personally I don't think raw html is a massive hurdle, just it is more convenient, and less likelihood of malformed code, with a good editor. If it is statically

Re: Update Wiki for Apache Wave

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Thomas
Epic? WAIB goes under there. From: Thomas Wrobel darkfl...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, 29 August, 2011 14:30:16 Subject: Re: Update Wiki for Apache Wave Sure...should I categorise this as just a TASK or maybe a STORY.kinda new to

Re: Client/Server protocol (again)

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Thomas
It is a little concerning that something that should ordinarily be so trivial as auto-linking is considered advanced. I wonder if it is worth looking again at the overall architecture. From outside it seems a hard sell, you need developers to want to get involved, both helping WAIB grow and

Re: protocols

2011-06-18 Thread Paul Thomas
how would p2p share the burden? I mean wave isn't like file share. c/s there is less replication of heavy lifting no? I think if anything cloud technology will be involved with wave. I agree the onus is on the person coming up with the potential technology to demonstrate that it would work.

Re: protocols

2011-05-31 Thread Paul Thomas
. Again - write once but use twice on both server and client. 2011/5/30 Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com There was talk of getting rid of GWT a while back. I think it is useful for Java guys to prototype in, but it seems a bit of a monstrosity to me. There is frameworks like

Re: protocols

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Thomas
face palm. more firefly references...ominous :/ From: Adrian Cochrane alci...@eml.cc To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Sun, 29 May, 2011 9:58:12 Subject: protocols avid Hearnden hearn...@google.com Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:36 AM Reply-To:

Re: protocols

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Thomas
Cochrane alci...@eml.cc On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:54 +0200, Thomas Wrobel darkfl...@gmail.com wrote: Like call it Moya then, from Farscape ;) (hay, it did last longer) On 29 May 2011 12:52, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: face palm. more firefly references...ominous

Re: protocols

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Thomas
There was talk of getting rid of GWT a while back. I think it is useful for Java guys to prototype in, but it seems a bit of a monstrosity to me. There is frameworks like sproutcore, and you can hand roll with coffescript. From: Perry Smith

Re: Wave state folders

2011-05-10 Thread Paul Thomas
and index based solution, something like Cassandra. 2011/5/9 Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com I think this was discussed before. folders are a bit old school. tags and specifically personal tags were suggested. From: Arne Eggert arne.egg...@googlemail.com

Access Control

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Thomas
Following Yuri's Poll I noticed that Access control wasn't listed other then public waves. A while ago that issue was discussed. I'll admit I was probably the first to caution. That is becuase I didn't want access control to become inflexible by design, and I was theorising custom access

Re: Wave In A Box 1.0

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Thomas
While Googles own service was limited to a single domain (for obvious business reasons) i always believed there was low incentive for Google to produce a non centralised system. They want to do well in social networking after all. Non centralised Facebook, don't think so.

Re: Access Control

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Thomas
wavelet and the permissions given to the group. --Nathanael Abbotts On 22 Apr 2011 14:01, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: I just thought of something. What if you could could be a participant once with different options? So therefore if you create blip under edit only than blip is only yours

Re: Access Control

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Thomas
participants of that wavelet access to the wavelet they are added to. They retain the intersection of their permissions on the addressed wavelet and the permissions given to the group. --Nathanael Abbotts On 22 Apr 2011 14:01, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: I just thought of something

Re: Federation, multiple servers

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Thomas
I was wondering how the rewrite of pygowave was going From: Adrian Cochrane alci...@eml.cc To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Fri, 22 April, 2011 21:44:25 Subject: Federation, multiple servers hello there, I am the manager of PyOfWave

Re: OT constraints on element nesting

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Thomas
I thought the video gave a pretty good explanation anyway. Purist XML is pretty overrated anyway, it creates more problems than it solves. Consider the XHTML debacle. What if W3C had continued to be stubborn on that issue, and they hasn't listened to HTML5 crowd. There was an obsession with

Re: XMPP over websockets

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Thomas
isn't the whole point of the c/s protocol that it allows to you do what you want? It is not dependent on a particular setup. I'm all for decoupling the client in the code, but also want an an agnostic application interface so you can choose how and what you want to design as a client. Client

Re: XMPP over websockets

2011-04-09 Thread Paul Thomas
personally I think using xmpp for c/s is unnecessary for now. - Original Message From: Thomas Wrobel darkfl...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Michael MacFadden michael.macfad...@gmail.com Sent: Sat, 9 April, 2011 23:32:38 Subject: Re: XMPP over websockets Remember

Re: Licence on Wave Protocol Logo

2011-04-08 Thread Paul Thomas
can include the updated logo in my patch that updates the WIAB login page. Yuri 2011/3/30 Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Ok here is a simplified and rationalised version of the existing logo. The main change is it is slightly less fussy. The is one vanishing point and it actually follows

Re: A change in my contributions

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Thomas
concur can't wait for the c/s protocol. - Original Message From: Thomas Wrobel darkfl...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Alex North a...@alexn.id.au Sent: Sun, 3 April, 2011 21:35:21 Subject: Re: A change in my contributions Sorry to hear you left google, but any and

Re: Licence on Wave Protocol Logo

2011-03-29 Thread Paul Thomas
-france.blogspot.com 2011/3/25 Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro zmy...@gmail.com This is an interesting design. Not that I do not like your logo, but I prefer the simplicity of the current logo. --Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:12, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: Licence on Wave Protocol Logo

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Thomas
.” Yaro zmy...@gmail.com This is an interesting design. Not that I do not like your logo, but I prefer the simplicity of the current logo. --Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:12, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: Slight correction - Original Message

Re: Licence on Wave Protocol Logo

2011-03-18 Thread Paul Thomas
Yeh I was going to say that. However you can't trademark a wave shape. So there is nothing stopping using a wave in thier design so long as the direct association is not there. I'd be up for a logo design comp. I could do it in inkscape as a plain svg. - Original Message From: Soren

Re: Proposal for organization of waves

2011-03-12 Thread Paul Thomas
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 18:55, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: I like the idea of personal super tags or hashes. However why should they just be personal? I think there should be public hash tags as well. Folders just doesn't make sense in this day an age, too

Re: Proposal for organization of waves

2011-03-12 Thread Paul Thomas
...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Sat, 12 March, 2011 19:15:32 Subject: Re: Proposal for organization of waves How is that different from a saved search? On Mar 12, 2011 7:58 AM, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: I think there has been a misunderstanding. I was proposing

Re: Proposal for organization of waves

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Thomas
I like the idea of personal super tags or hashes. However why should they just be personal? I think there should be public hash tags as well. Folders just doesn't make sense in this day an age, too old school hierarchical. - Original Message From: Thomas Wrobel darkfl...@gmail.com

Re: offtopic: You guys know why Google has not close their wave servers?

2011-03-02 Thread Paul Thomas
You wouldn't want every feature anyway. Just becuase it was used in Google Wave doesn't mean it was the best solution for the problem. Don't forget that Google Wave was a proof of concept. - Original Message From: Yuri Z vega...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wed,

Re: is wave playback a priority right now?

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Thomas
about subwavelets before. Is it in the whitepapers? On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 00:21, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: The simplest would just be to have subwavelts. In that they are two wavelets with distinct histories, but one is in the other. But regardless their histories are only

Re: Question about Wave-Dev

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Thomas
Personally I think SMTP is the wrong protocol for Wave. I know that Chris argues that it is essential for enterprise, I actually disagree.The wave/email analogy was always a false one. Currently there is no mature wave services. I know that frustrates some people, but frankly it has little to

Re: is wave playback a priority right now?

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Thomas
I don't know, but it wasn't too smooth with Gwave. - Original Message From: Gerardo Lozano glozan...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Mon, 21 February, 2011 19:31:37 Subject: Re: is wave playback a priority right now? What would be the best way to approach playback

Re: is wave playback a priority right now?

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Thomas
Large waves are a problem in general. I wonder how WIAB would cope. it is definitely something that need to be addressed, how to represent large waves. - Original Message From: STenyaK sten...@gmail.com To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue

Re: is wave playback a priority right now?

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Thomas
Thanks is interesting. One point of playback is to quickly get updated on what you have missed. So therefore you don't really have to have have every singe change. It is kind of like flicking through the unread blips, except that doesn't have blip level history. I would be good if you could

Re: Question about Wave-Dev

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Thomas
, it should be clear, that solutions of the first kind , most probably will be provided by 3-rd parties and not by the WIAB community. 2011/2/22 Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Personally I think SMTP is the wrong protocol for Wave. I know that Chris argues that it is essential

Re: More Site Updates

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Thomas
Does it really have to e that complicated? You only really need the fonts and colour scheme and a logo. There is hardly anything wrong with the theme at the moment TBH. The current scheme of WAIB is simpler still :) According to their licence GWave don't wasn't us to use their logo. Presumably

Re: A few suggestions

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Thomas
Like is already covered by many existing gadgets and likely (caja like) distributed agents in the future (and I would suggest an api that has the ability to add menu items and buttons to common controls of blip and wave albeit interface agnostic as possible). --- On Wed, 9/2/11, David

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for February 2011 (wave-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Thomas
How comes no mention of federation? I would put that in the description. --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Soren Lassen so...@google.com wrote: From: Soren Lassen so...@google.com Subject: Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for February 2011 (wave-dev@incubator.apache.org) To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org

Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for February 2011 (wave-dev@incubator.apache.org)

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Thomas
...and also graphical client, I would put a brief description of what the server is. Then a brief description of the point of WAIB as a package. --- On Wed, 9/2/11, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Incubator PMC/Board report

Re: ProcessOne appears to be forking

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Thomas
That's what I thought, but maybe it wasn't obvious where to turn to for the stated reasons. As for the wave brand. the obscurity or terms like 'wave', 'blip', etc were king of emblematic of the problem with google wave. Not being relatable to everyday users. I think it is too late to change

Re: ProcessOne appears to be forking

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Thomas
of communication would be a great shame. -Thomas On 30 January 2011 00:28, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: That's what I thought, but maybe it wasn't obvious where to turn to for the stated reasons. As for the wave brand. the obscurity or terms like 'wave', 'blip', etc were king

Re: ProcessOne appears to be forking

2011-01-28 Thread Paul Thomas
Typo XMPP --- On Fri, 28/1/11, Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Paul Thomas dt01pqt...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: ProcessOne appears to be forking To: wave-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: Friday, 28 January, 2011, 9:28 I won't be hard to convince people that XMTP is superior

Re: Waves Persistence

2011-01-25 Thread Paul Thomas
Here is my 5p. I support any number of persistence implementations, the more the merrier, so long as it doesn't disrupt  WAIB development.  I do however think that WAIB should support one default implementation that is hassle free but still