| [ecf-dev] RT Shared Editing Call |
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Hi, This is a short summary of our call from
earlier today, see http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=kwgxp28yq3stpu3x James, Remy, Marcelo, Scott and I were on
the call. James outlined what their use case(s) for
utilizing ECF shared editing look like. They're apparently building an Eclipse-based
IDE for a not further specified language - from what I understood, probably
something along the lines of VHDL/hardware-descriptive. The primary representation seems to be an
abstract model, which can be mapped to various textual and graphical
representations. Real-Time Shared Editing which supports modification
of the graphical model representation is their main interest. From an ECF point of view, James' interest
is very fortunate, since we've been thinking about tackling the extension of
shared editing beyond the text domain and struggling with coming up with a
suitable use case. I've suggested that James watches the Cola
Google Tech Talk from last year [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfeUCT-tRJQ ],
since in the case of modification of graphical models, we will have to identify
atomic operations, conflicts and resolutions that are different from text
editing. The general resolution mechanism will remain similar. The current plan is to follow up with
another conference call, either next week or the week after. In the second part of the call, I've shared
an idea about which Scott and I had talked about during EclipseCon. I would
love for us to explore the feasibility of extending and integrating Workspace Resource
Sharing and DocShare. The use case I have in mind would involve a
user to share a project and all initial resources with a remote user. All
subsequent changes to the project, such as the addition and removal of
resources (e.g. new files etc.) would be propagated to the respective remote
site transparently. As soon as two users open the same project file in an
editor, this new integrated project sharing feature would initialize a
real-time shared editing session for the file - also done transparently without
prompting a user. Let's bounce this idea off of each other
and brainstorm if this would be something you'd like to see materialize in one
form or another. Feedback is *welcome* ;) |