Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [fossil-users] [OT] Who's interested in project management & collaboration tools? And...

[Mark Holmquist]

On 08/06/2012 05:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> That's sort of the mental model, with a few nits:
>
> - looking at Fossil - which incorporates distributed wiki and bug
> tracking with a git-like distributed version control system

Great plan. You could almost just git-track an instance of TiddlyWiki 
and call it a day.

> - looking at a publish-subscribe, multi-cast protocol - to avoid nodes
> having to do peer-wise pushes or pulls (actually, NNTP would be perfect
> - with crypto for access controls)

Yeah, pub-sub is a lot more complicated, especially with P2P, since it 
would involve opening ports and so on. I mean, it's possible.

> - think "git as a JavaScript library, embedded in the replicated document"

Sounds like "distributed Etherpad Lite". Have you looked at that, and 
thought about simply making it distributed somehow?

> By the way... since the link managed to get dropped:
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th

Eugh, "open software". It's like people just post to this list for 
publicity, no regard for what we're trying to do. Wait....you're an evil 
genius, that's the only explanation.

Supported by the fact that your beta/alpha users (and release users? 
must be a typo?) will only have access to the source code if they pay 
you extra. That's not how free software works, I'm sorry to break it to you.

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Mark Holmquist
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