[Owncloud] Re: Ideas for improving owncloud

[Klaas Freitag]

Am Donnerstag 24 Februar 2011, 11:14:41 schrieb Fabio Alessandro Locati:
> 2011/2/24 Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at quites.com.br>
> 
> > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:55:02 Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote:
> > > I would suggest to look in a MongoDB idea, because this would make the
> > > sharing very efficient, easy and secure, the only downside is that we
> > 
> > have
> > 
> > > to implement the versioning. We could keep a db of deltas and a db with
> > 
> > all
> > 
> > > the 'last version' of the objects.
> > 
> > I think Git is simpler than that.
> > I saves all copies of a file. There is no need to use deltas. ;-)
> > I recommend to read the chapter 9 of Pro Git:
> > http://progit.org/book/ch9-0.html
> > 
> > I think that it will be necessary to modify the way that git works
> > because it
> > was created to provide versions for the whole repository (like SVN) and
> > not per file (like CVS) as used in other services. Anyway, this can
> > simplify everything.
> 
> The problem with git,  is sharing, not the versioning ;)
Why don't we investigate to implement the WebDAV sharing extension? It's 
described here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3253

And what is meant with "sharing"? Can we elaborate on this a bit more? I was
thinking a web resource, protected by groups and user permissions is already
very good at sharing?

Maybe I misunderstand...

regards,

Klaas