Okay, I've converted it into a doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpfoO7fUkK3U9ED2OPZZ9wyZpo7UXPXcC-30oB5sZNE/edit#
Maintaining syntax highlighting doesn't seem clear how to do, sorry a lot of it is code, but it was clearer to organize my thoughts that way. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:18 PM Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Thom, > > This is great! I'm really pleased to see you (and really, the larger a-s > team!) thinking about extensible Sync 1.5. Sync 1.6, if you will :) > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:29 PM Thom Chiovoloni <tchiovol...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> I've been kicking around ideas for this for a while, and finally wrote >> them down. Essentially, it's a plan for us to get some of the benefits of >> Mentat without all of the troubles required to implement Mentat. In >> particular, it gets us ease of implementing new data types, some degree of >> schema evolution, and inter-record references (with some limitations). >> >> My big fear would be that without something like this, teams will turn to >> off the shelf sync solutions that don't offer the same crypto/privacy/etc >> protection that they would with Sync (E.g. things like firebase, etc). >> >> It also has a more limited scope (no support for history, no support for >> record types with constraints as complex as bookmarks). >> >> I wrote it as a github gist so that I could embed code with comments and >> have it syntax hightlighted, although I realize in retrospect that a google >> doc would allow for more flexibility with commenting and etc. >> >> https://gist.github.com/thomcc/d45cebb959a005bb915a1b34cd4fe215 >> > Mmm, this does make it difficult to comment -- and I have many comments > :) There are ways to convert gists to Google docs; could you do that so > that we can manage the conversation? Or inline the text here and we'll do > it by email, although I think many folks won't appreciate the verbiage. > > I think we should run this by the Kinto folks as well. I feel that if we > can't implement "basically Kinto.js" on top of this then we're probably not > doing the right thing. > > Best, > Nick >
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