[Owncloud] Inter-ownCloud Sharing

[Michael Gapczynski]

On Saturday, May 26, 2012 07:50:45 PM Bartek Przybylski wrote:
> > I agree this is it how it should be done. Bartek would you like to
> > comment?
> 
> Decision of binding owncloud instances only by admins was made for
> save resources and restrict access to information about instance.
> Binding between instances should allow instances to exchange
> information like userlist, groups etc.
> Obviously accessing sharing only by single user should also by
> available, but i dont remember did i point it out while proposal
> review.
> 

Relying on admins to bind instances is too much restriction on who you can 
share with. I don't understand how this method saves any resources. 

Exchanging the list of users and groups might be nice, but I don't see why 
this is necessary. The main use case I see for sharing between instances is 
for two individuals with their own independent instances. Sharing with a group 
or looking through the user list on a different instance sounds really 
strange.

The best possible solution is to integrate sharing with the contacts app and 
allow the linking of a contact to a remote ownCloud instance user. In the same 
fashion as Jan-Christoph pointed out with frank at franksowncloud.org. 

> > 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.
> 
> Project beeing api instead of app, im not sure how that was mixed up.
> file sharing app was suppose to be example of api usage

I don't understand what you mean.