#63 VGrid live chat

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: jonas.ba...@gmail.com
Originally owned by: jonas.ba...@gmail.com

To whom is this feature relevant?
-users

Please provide a one line description of the feature:
-VGrid owner/member live chat

How would the new feature work (appear in use)?
VGrids page would include owner and member chat links pointing to chat pages for that VGrid. On those pages all owners and members could chat away with other VGrid members and owners.

How would the new feature be implemented?
We could have one or more chat files in the vgrid shared folders and just use (locked) reading/writing interfaces to allow consistently appending live chat messages to them. The actual chat interface should just use jquery/ajax to load and show the latest version regularly.
There are jquery plugins like:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-create-a-simple-web-based-chat-application/
that could potentially be modified to use this kind of vgrid chat backend.

Please provide any additional information below.
A synchronized vgrid file I/O bacend may also be useful in relation to using job communication in vGrid jobs. Perhaps it can reuse from the existing mqueue framework.
The choice of flat files as the backend additionally provides automatic full logging of chats.