[Owncloud] Hoping to contribute as part of University degree

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Then there's http://github.com/danlucraft/git.js


On Fri, October 7, 2011 21:47, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> I'm no low-level developer - I can barely keep up with my own
> projects, but I think that having something DVCS based will give you
> more power in the long run. Each time you save, it's going to try to
> write to the WebDav service (if you're using copy-on-write). If you
> use the DVCS model, then your users will have the ability to work
> off-line (imagine being on a bus, train, or aeroplane) and when they
> get network access back, they can commit.
>
> There's no reason why we couldn't implement a DVCS style of
> versioning, but then if you treat any WebDav uploads as a commit
> against the head, then any diffs that appear in DVCS can be patched
> against the versions coming in against.
>
> Look at Sparkleshare for a versioned file-storage service using Git as
> it's revision-engine, or Ubuntu 1 for a CouchDB based service.
>
> Bear in mind, one major benefit of ownCloud right now is that it's a
> simple WebDav service with plugins. If we have a DVCS engine on top of
> that, then we would probably need to look at writing native
> applications for the various platforms the project wants to support,
> although Git now supports HTTP access, so there's probably no reason
> why ownCloud couldn't implement a Git interface, perhaps?
>
> Wow, now isn't that a picture I've just painted?!
>
> LOL I really hope this comes about. I'd love to have a cross-platform
> storage service, that I can use to replace my reliance on DropBox
> because of it's Android, Linux and Windows support, but that doesn't
> need a constant network connection (which is what DVCS brings to the
> party)!
> --
> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
>
> On 7 October 2011 18:32, Craig Roberts <craig0990 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Florian and Robin,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions - I somehow managed not to think about
>> metadata/versioning while I was trying to come up with ideas.
>>
>> The versioning functionality takes my interest, I've been looking into
>> the issues most distributed version control systems have with large
>> files, as well as the DeltaV extension to WebDAV (RFC 3253).
>>
>> What I'd like to know is how ownCloud is expected to behave -
>> apparently SVN provides a WebDAV/DeltaV compatible web server, which
>> makes it a check-in/check-out, centralised model. Alternatively, a
>> DVCS-based implementation (either Git or something similar) would
>> allow merging between each remote (i.e. desktop/laptop/ownCloud
>> server).
>>
>> Should I be looking at implementing DeltaV, either into ownCloud or
>> directly upstream into SabreDAV; or would it be better to look into a
>> distributed VCS with some big file extensions and concentrate on
>> providing an intuitive interface for managing it all?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Craig
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