[Owncloud] Inter-ownCloud Sharing

[Michael Gapczynski]

On Saturday, May 26, 2012 06:14:55 PM Deepak Mittal wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <
> 
> hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:
> > I don’t know if it fits the scope of the proposal, but I think it’s
> > important because we need to get inter-ownCloud sharing right. I
> > highly disagree with this part: »Only admins can create sharing
> > between two clouds. (This was decided after discussions with the
> > mentor).« (– who is the mentor, I can’t find any info in the
> > proposal).
> 
> Bartek (aqu on freenode) and I discussed on this and he said giving so much
> power to a user wouldn't be a good idea. Unfortunately, Bartek didn't get
> selected as a mentor for this project. Right now Robin Appelman (Icewind)
> is my mentor.
> 
> > Inter-sharing should, at least from the user perspective outside a
> > company setting, _not_ be the choice of the admin. Like with Diaspora
> > and Email, you should just be able to put in frank at franksowncloud.org
> > – then he gets a notification, and can either accept or reject the
> > shared file.
> 
> That was the exact original idea I had proposed.

I agree this is it how it should be done. Bartek would you like to comment?

I noticed in your proposal that this is focusing on files. Please note that 
I'm working on refactoring sharing to work with other app content.

I'm starting to think that this project shouldn't be an app. I strongly 
believe this should be a REST API in the public namespace for apps to register 
specific actions with. We eventually need something so files can be shared, 
reverted to past versions, etc. from desktop and mobile clients. Apps other 
than just sharing should be able to talk between instances and have actions 
triggered by remote clients. Doing this separate from interc-ownCloud sharing 
will just be duplicating work. 

Deepak -  This doesn't require any extra work from you, but rather a little 
reformatting. We're still very early in the summer.


Michael