avid Hearnden <[email protected]> Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:36 AM > Reply-To: [email protected], [email protected] > To: wave-dev <[email protected]> > There is a technical roadmap (i.e., rich design docs etc, published > somewhere on the site - let me know if you can't find them) for a new > protocol that overcomes many of the issues with the current one, and works > much better with more advanced features (e.g. diff-on-open). I don't think > it's a moving target - the doc has been ready for a few months, and I don't > think anyone has significant changes to it in mind. However, AFAIK, nobody > who's available has signed up to do the work, so there is no timeline for > it. I was keen to get into it a few months back, and Alex North was too, > but both our availabilities have significantly diminished. It's probably > about 2-3 weeks of work for someone to see it through end to end though. It > was previously blocked by a few things that have now been implemented.
> I would strongly encourage not building too much on the current protocol, > since it has a number of known limitations. The new protocol is simpler and > achieves a better separation of functionality. If there are a few people > (PyOfWave?) with the will and a bit of time, then it is very achievable to > get it rolled out. > -Dave I will be proud to go over it, but (because I want to be liberal) I'd first ask to start with a forum or mailing list which I'd refer to as 'The Confederate' after Firefly T.V. series which gave Wave it's name. I've already exchanged some messages with josephg on GitHub on the shareJS Wave project on this. What I planned to work with, if I didn't get proper standardization, is the extended original standards (to make up for some lacking features I say), a non-HTTP alternative to Simple Data Protocol, an fully designed Gadget API in a derivative of CoffeeScript (to simplify offline clients), and a URL scheme to serve for embedding, WaveThis, and a alias query for groups. I'll get started on it provided that I am provided with the necessary information on how to do it. However on my project, I've got some work on PyOfWave to finish. -- [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free
