Re: [ecf-dev] RT Shared Editing Call

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mustafa,

Thanks for the notes...I also created a wiki page for recording ideas, 
images, etc for RT shared editing next steps:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/RT_Shared_Editing_-_Next_Steps

Of course I put a link on this page to this mailing list and this 
discussion thread, so we can easily go back and forth (and with 
bugs/enhancement requests).  If this becomes difficult to manage 
(because of wiki page, mailing list, bugs), then feel free to remove it.

Thanks,

Scott


Mustafa Isik wrote:
> Hi,
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> This is a short summary of our call from earlier today, see 
> http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=kwgxp28yq3stpu3x
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> James, Remy, Marcelo, Scott and I were on the call.
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> 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.
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> Real-Time Shared Editing which supports modification of the graphical 
> model representation is their main interest.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The current plan is to follow up with another conference call, either 
> next week or the week after.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Feedback is *welcome* ;)
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