[Owncloud] Re: GSoC Sync Client Scope

[Antonio José Gallo Sánchez]

Hey! I'm currently working on the funambol integration, it's my SoK project,
but I've paused while taking exams (I finish on the first of July)

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:06 PM, kunal <kunal.t2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Over the past few weeks I had also evaluated DropBox ( The service I
> would like to emulate in ownCloud my work ).
>
> Having Evaluated DropBox I have decided to set the scope of my project
> work to the following features:
>
> 1. Implement a sync server component capable of syncing Files (Music
> ,Videos) and also Contacts , Calendars etc ( DropBox doesn't sync
> Contacts and Calendar events)
>
> 2. The client must work behind a proxy (libFunambol uses libCurl at the
> backend so this would be easy to implement).
>
> 3. Give the User an option to set merge conflict mode.
> DropBox as of now doesn't do any Merge conflict resolution. with SyncML
> we have a mechanism to resolve merge conflicts
> (https://core.forge.funambol.org/wiki/Merge_Conflict_Resolution)
>
> 4. Timed Sync ( Sync Only at specified times of the day)
>
> 5. Auto Sync : the moment a file or Contact is added or modified, the
> sync is triggered. For this I plan to use a daemon which keeps
> monitoring the folder under sync.
>
> 6. Server Space Notification in the client. ( Notice like : "You have X
> GB of space remaining on the server)
>
> 7. Finally if time permits , I will integrate http://camaya.net/gloox/
> into the client as well , to implement synchronization over LAN.
> If server and client both are on a LAN then the data should not travel
> through the internet. Also this would allow me to implement
> auto-discovery of sync Clients.
>
> --
> regards
> -------
> Kunal Ghosh
> Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering.
> Sir MVIT
> Bangalore,India
>
> permalink: member.acm.org/~kunal.t2 <http://member.acm.org/%7Ekunal.t2>
> Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com
> Website:www.kunalghosh.net46.net
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Antonio J. Gallo
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