Indeed, this is great to see. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Dan Peterson <dpeter...@google.com> wrote:
> Christian, Dan, great to see this released! > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Christian Ohler <oh...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Fellow wavers, > > > > rather than making waves accessible in Google Docs, which takes too > > long, we are releasing our code in a form that will hopefully be > > useful in the short term. You can find it at > > https://code.google.com/p/walkaround/ . > > > > From the project description: > > Walkaround is a variant of Wave, based on the Apache Wave code base, > > that runs on App Engine. Walkaround can import waves from > > wave.google.com to allow users to keep working with their data > > regardless of the future of wave.google.com. (The import feature is > > still experimental.) > > > > Much of the walkaround code is not specific to Wave, but factored out > > as a separate, more general collaboration layer that manages shared > > live objects. These objects can be modified by multiple clients at > > the same time, with changes made by any client immediately broadcast > > to all others. The Wave application is built on top of this, but the > > live collaboration layer is flexible enough to support other > > applications. > > > > Walkaround supports live concurrent rich-text editing, in-line > > replies, user avatars, wave gadgets, attachments, and we are working > > on integrating App Engine's full text search service. For now, it > > does not support Wave robots, federation, or private replies, but > > these features could be added. > > --- > > > > Some of you have been asking about Wave on App Engine; perhaps this is > > what you are looking for. > > > > The Wave application in walkaround depends very heavily on the Apache > > Wave code base, but the general collaboration layer is useful > > independently, so we put it into a separate repository for now. > > > > Happy hacking, > > Christian. > > > -- --Matt
