Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [fossil-users] [OT] Who's interested in project management & collaboration tools? And...

[Miles Fidelman]

Mark Holmquist wrote:
> > - everyone has their own copy of an action item list and supporting
> > documents
> > - updates are replicated via a peer-to-peer, asynchronous protocol
>
> I can imagine a git-based system that creates a git repository with 
> some meta-files (something like .gitpeers) that keep track of other 
> users. Whenever you connect to a network, it checks for updates and 
> tries to apply them; if there are conflicts, it notifies you and backs 
> off. You could implement it as a pretty tiny daemon, probably. Any 
> language should be able to do it.

That's sort of the mental model, with a few nits:

- looking at Fossil - which incorporates distributed wiki and bug 
tracking with a git-like distributed version control system

- looking at a publish-subscribe, multi-cast protocol - to avoid nodes 
having to do peer-wise pushes or pulls (actually, NNTP would be perfect 
- with crypto for access controls)

- looking at implementing the clients as pure JavaScript embedded within 
the shared documents (an action item list is simply a piece of 
HTML+JavaScript sent by email) - once received and opened in a browser 
it can interact with its recipient, and communicate with the 
publish-subscribe channel synchronize with other copies (biggest current 
issue is how to do local storage, there are some serious issues 
associated with JavaScript interacting with a local file system; 
probably going to use some of the browser-based HTML5 storage functions) 
- think "git as a JavaScript library, embedded in the replicated document"

> > For a lot of people, a Google Spreadsheet, or one of the new web-based
> > checklist sharing packages is just fine.  This is for those of us who:
> > - like our own copies of things, and/or,
> > - need to work disconnected a lot of the time (on airplanes, responding
> > to disasters, and so forth)
>
> ....
>
> - like to be free
>
> This is a really funny conversation to be having on LP-discuss, guys. 
> "Google Docs/Atlassian/Lotus Notes might work, lol" <-- not 
> super-helpful to the Free Software people on this list who might be 
> interested in the topic.
:-)

By the way... since the link managed to get dropped:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
All support and visibility will be very much appreciated!

Miles


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