Re: Google Summer Coding - P2P XWiki

Hi, This is a very cool project.. very ambitious and it has a good chance being accepted. I see that you have a very decent experience with the GRID computing thing.. You could actually merge it with the "offline" wiki so that it is a 2 step process.. So the deliverables would be: 1/ Java program allowing to synchronize a local wiki with a remote (centrally localted) wiki and handle conflicts. XWiki uses CVS for versioning it's files so conflict management should be possible and provided through an interface Users would access the local wiki through their usual web interface. 2/ Implement a P2P protocol which would allow to have no central server containing the wiki data. Documents would be synched from user to user on a document by document basis. Conflicts management will be needed. A central server can be kept (or not) to manage the participant lists. A system for security is needed (a key ? PGP keys ? something else ?). Sync could be manual or automated (near-real-time).. 3/ Optional: Eclipse RCP client embedding Gekko and managing the remote/P2P aspects of XWiki, manage the sync conflicts and adding some cool XWiki interface navigation features (spaces, documents, active users, etc..). The XWiki content would be shown using the embedded Gekko component. Basically the deliverables would be to amaze us.. This is probably one of the only project with the WYSIWYG editor where there is significant obstacles to make this work. So we can understand the result isn't perfect.. If we have a working prototype even if not everything is solved we would consider this ok. Ludovic Bikash Agarwalla a écrit : -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic