Re: Question collaborative editing.

[Ergus]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:25:01AM +0000, Jean Louis wrote:

> Collaboration in Emacs should be native, as that is often used feature
> by many users of spreadsheets online, many of them use online services
> and collaborative spreadsheet without two reason for spreadsheet, they
> want collaboration primarily.
>
> I would like to see something like separate switch out function that
> launches internet exposed server with carefully selected and authorized
> files for collaborative editing.
Rudel used to do something like that... Not sure how exactly.

> That would give freedom from proprietary software to many users.

But this has 3 main problems.

1) On one hand such services require some servers (to work like google
spreadsheet) and need to be provided somehow... something difficult as I
don't think gnu or fsf have resources to maintain a service like that
and provide it.

2) On the other hand it will be better if the service is somehow
distributed in order to give more privacy-security but also to reduce
the load of the servers... I still can't find any infrastructure we can
use, cause most of the peer-to-peer libraries are for C++, javascript,
Node.js and so on (example: webrtc). Just on yesterday I found
n2n... But I am not a web specialist so it requires a lot of
experimenting time for me.

3) The other workflow (create a local server for others) is the
"simplest" approach at the moment. But that is a problem for many use
cases due to dynamic ip addreses, firewalls, opening ports and so on. It
is fine for a class room or company, but not for working from home.