Re: Q: Is this project of some interest?

You could take a look at the code that Abiword has. They have a feature to
do this by Bonjour/Avahi, Jabber and proper collaboration servers.

2012/3/7 Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>

> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Riccardo Bernardini
> <framefritti@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This feature is my "personal itch" since I would actually use to write
>
> that is usually the best motivation to achieve anything in opensource :-)
>
> > "many-hands" documents together with colleagues. Moreover, it would be
> > an important feature of LibreOffice, not shared by other editing
> > solutions.
> [...]
> > 1.  Are you aware if this type of capability is already available (I
> > do not think so) or currently developed?
>
> Not that I'm aware of... but I've recall seeing some discussion of
> people on the ML itching a similar topic (i.e how to store document in
> a git-friendly manner, altough IIRc that was not for 'sharing per say,
> but simply for the change-tradcking aspect)
>
> > 2. Has the LibreOffice community some interest in this idea?  If it
> > has, this would give us a stronger motivation.
>
> The 'LibreOffice community', just like most, rarely has a single mind.
> But in the end the question is not 'are you for it', but 'is there a
> showstopper that would make you against it'
>
> > 3. Do you have some general suggestions for us?  Especially about
> > interfacing the rest of the developers.
>
> My suggestion woud be: do as you would for any open source community:
> show-up, do some work, get yourself known for your work
> Lead by example to attract people that will find your itch something
> they are interested i... and code is much more convincing than talk.
> Engage on this ML, on IRC, read the relevant part of the Wiki, get
> familiar with the build process by doing some easy hacks...
> The Dev Community is pretty welcoming to new dev of any level and skill.
>
> On a higher level, smaller incremental changes are easier to get in
> than big-bad dump. so try to break-down you itch in manage-ably small
> feature, preferably that do not break things :-) and get them in one
> at the time... or instance working on improving, if need be, the
> 'uncompressed/flat' odf format... then saving directly in a git repo
> (with commit and all), then managing git conflict-resolution, then
> managing push/pull... (this is just an example based on your
> description.. I have no idea what the real technical/functional hurdle
> are...)
>
> Norbert
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