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Re: GSoC: collaborative editing
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Thomas Lord |
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Re: GSoC: collaborative editing |
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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:18:25 -0700 |
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 17:14 -0400, Richard M Stallman wrote:
> Basically what you're saying is "OK, let's impose an arbitrary total
> ordering on the changes." Indeed that makes writing the collaborative
> tool easier, but it also undermines collaboration by giving priority
> to getting there *first* rather than doing it *better*.
>
> With all due respect, I think that is a misunderstanding of the issue.
> We are talking about editing conflicts on timescales of a few seconds.
> If two people are trying to edit the same part of the text at the same
> time, they are stepping on each other's feet. Which one does the
> stepping "better" is hardly an issue.
You still need a way to keep remote buffers in sync
and to re-sync them after temporary netsplits.
The issue Stephen is worried about is that the
proposal offered is to ignore that problem and
assume a reliable network. FWIW I think Stephen's
concerns are valid but that there is value in a
short experimental project that ignores the problem
to get something basic working - at least as long
as there is some confidence that the solution to the
simpler problem stands a good chance of growing into
a solution for the more general problem. Stephen
is right on strategy here but the offered tactic
might have some value anyway. (Or it might not, I'm
not evaluating.)
-t
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, (continued)
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/13
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Brian Templeton, 2009/04/13
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/04/13
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Brian Templeton, 2009/04/14
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/04/14
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Brian Templeton, 2009/04/14
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Thomas Lord, 2009/04/14
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Richard M Stallman, 2009/04/14
- Re: GSoC: collaborative editing,
Thomas Lord <=
Re: GSoC: collaborative editing, Brian Templeton, 2009/04/14