Thank you Brian! It's clear now.
On Oct 2, 1:34 am, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:05:31PM -0700, Tad Glines wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Brian May
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:40:53AM -0700, nemeseri wrote:
> > >> Is there a possibility that google will make the Google Wave Web
> > >> client open source and installable for us?
> > >> ...
>
> > > See the discussions in Office Hours 2009-09-03 (from memory).
>
> > I did find something in "Office Hours: 2009-08-20 - Transcript".
> > Near the bottom:
>
> I was thinking about the answer to my question in 2009-09-03:
>
> me:
>
> Ok, I will start. I hope this is on-topic for this discussion, however I
> believe it is a big issue:
>
> How much of the sandbox client/server will be open sourced? What parts will
> remain proprietary? Will the open source community be expected to implement
> any missing components for it to work outside Google with full features?
>
> Sep 3
> Vadim Gerasimov:
>
> The official answer is
> athttp://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-wave-federation-prot...
>
> Sep 3
> Vadim Gerasimov:
>
> We plan to opensource more code but haven't worked out the schedule, yet.
>
> Sep 3
> me:
>
> Will wait then. What happens here, I think, may be very significant to if
> Wave is widely adopted or not.
>
> Sep 3
> Pamela Fox:
>
> The hardest part for developers to replicate will be the rich editor, I'd
> say, so cross your fingers that we can get that code out to the world. (we'll
> cross ours too)
>
> Sep 3
> James Purser:
>
> yar, fingers crossed.
>
> Sep 3
> me:
>
> My fingers are crossed ;-).
>
> Sep 3
> Chris Marino:
>
> Cross our fingers? Sounds like you're hedging here. Can you be any more
> specific? (you here being Google).
>
> Sep 3
> Pamela Fox:
>
> Lars mentioned open-sourcing the editor during the I/O keynote, but we
> haven't said anything more authoritive since then. It's something we want to
> do, but it will take time.
>
> Sep 3
> Chris Marino:
>
> Now I'm even more confused. I see now that you're talking about the rich
> editor, not the entire client? Right? Assuming that's the case, what other
> things that are part of the client that we might not see in a ref impl.?
>
> Sep 3
> Vadim Gerasimov:
>
> We'd like to open source as much of the client code as possible. Early 2010
> is our target, but it is very much to be determined.
>
> Sep 3
> me:
>
> Do you plan to release any of the server code currently used by the Sandbox?
> Or will this be the FedOne server + improvements?
>
> Sep 3
> James Purser:
>
> From discussions I've had with some of the Googlers, FedOne consists of a
> small part of the wavesandbox server with a focus on federation. As they
> work, they're bringing the two branches back into sync.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Sep 3
> me:
>
> Hopefully you are right, and approach would make sense too.
>
> Sep 3
> Pamela Fox:
>
> You might want to read this forum post in addition to the blog post, if you
> haven't
> yet:http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/618...
>
> Nice snippet: "This code will evolve into the shared codebase (that we'll use
> and we hope others will too)." (James is correct)
>
> Sep 3
> me:
>
> Oh, your right, I missed that first time I read it. Thanks.
>
> === cut ===
>
> I thought this was of interest too:
>
> James Purser:
>
> One more for FedOne, what plans are there to bring persistance to the FedOne
> server?
>
> Sep 3
> Pamela Fox:
>
> Not in the near future - closer goals are to have the fedone impl use proper
> blip/document structure.
>
> Sep 3
> me:
>
> Does this mean FedOne will get full support for OT? Or is this a seperate
> unrelated issue?
>
> Sep 3
> Pamela Fox:
>
> Yes, that is also a priority. Likely not until after 9/30.
>
> --
> Brian May <[email protected]>
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