Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-21 Thread Trevor Parscal
I would be willing to mentor this project pending some further review so that we could scope it correctly. - Trevor On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Ashish Dubey ashish.dube...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Platonides You're right on the fact that its ambitious. And this is the reason I've started

[Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Everyone The idea of realtime collaboration, and the thought of it being implemented on MediaWiki based sites has amazed me ever since I read about it in the strategic proposal about Realtime collaboration here[1]. I really wanted to work on it as my GSoC project and through some fruitful

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 19.02.2012 14:20, schrieb Ashish Dubey: Hi Everyone The idea of realtime collaboration, use Etherpad Lite See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply. Great work with the Etherpad Lite. It can be used to bring realtime editing on wiki pages now, but I think building realtime collaboration into the Visual Editor project has its own set of advantages. As the Visual Editor evolves it will support more features of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread John Du Hart
No, that's not the answer. On Feb 19, 2012 8:22 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Am 19.02.2012 14:20, schrieb Ashish Dubey: Hi Everyone The idea of realtime collaboration, use Etherpad Lite See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Platonides
Are you confident you would be able to complete it in time? Looks too ambitious to me. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoC 2012] Proposal - Realtime Collaboration on Visual Editor

2012-02-19 Thread Ashish Dubey
Hi Platonides You're right on the fact that its ambitious. And this is the reason I've started working early on this. The key part in the project to me would be to consolidate the concurrent transactions and avoid conflicts. I've been reading considerably on measures to do so, perhaps working to