Re: [AgileWiki] things are getting exciting: sharing

[Norm K. <nr...@cm...>]

Bill, you should be sure to emphasize that sharing is NOT synchronization.
The Rolonic position on synchronization is simply that it does not work.
Many systems have died trying.

;-n

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Subject: [AgileWiki] things are getting exciting: sharing

I've just made a bunch of changes to TKS and Rebuild,
though it will perhaps take a day for me to catch up
on testing.  :-(

But I wanted to let you know that we are very close to
something quite exciting: sharing.

What is sharing? Sharing is the exchange of selected
log file entries between arks, where selection is
based on Cabinet. It allows you to work locally in
your own ark, but share the changes you make with arks
on other systems, via RMI, svn or email.

For sharing to work, we need to enhance the way
rebuild handles destroys--it needs to destroy child
rolons present in an ark which are not present in the
ark which performed the destroy. That's not too
difficult.

We'll also want to tag the actions in the log file by
cabinet, so we can just share the changes made to the
cabinets which are being shared.

Another change that we'll want is to have an
incrimental version of rebuild which adds a log file
from another ark to the existing ark without having to
rebuild the entire ark.

Sharing has been "in the works" for several years
now--some prior versions of AgileWiki already
supported this, so I'm quite familiar with the issues
involved.

The advantage of sharing is that you can work off-line
(think laptop) and then share your changes when you
come back on-line. And even when you are on-line, if
you are making a lot of updates (think power user),
things will go a whole lot quicker if you make the
changes locally and then batch the updates to remote
systems. Sharing is one of the major features targeted
for AgileWiki3.

Bill


		
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