From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Fermin <fmfs@posteo.net>,
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>,
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Question collaborative editing.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:35:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blho7af9.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929124513.fd745r2txowwbiir@Ergus> (Ergus's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:45:13 +0200")
On 29 Sep 2020, Ergus wrote:
>1) On one hand such services require some servers (to work like google
>spreadsheet) and need to be provided somehow... something difficult as I
>don't think gnu or fsf have resources to maintain a service like that
>and provide it.
>
>2) On the other hand it will be better if the service is somehow
>distributed in order to give more privacy-security but also to reduce
>the load of the servers... I still can't find any infrastructure we can
>use, cause most of the peer-to-peer libraries are for C++, javascript,
>Node.js and so on (example: webrtc). Just on yesterday I found
>n2n... But I am not a web specialist so it requires a lot of
>experimenting time for me.
>
>3) The other workflow (create a local server for others) is the
>"simplest" approach at the moment. But that is a problem for many use
>cases due to dynamic ip addreses, firewalls, opening ports and so on. It
>is fine for a class room or company, but not for working from home.
It's okay if a central server is required, as long as it's free software. In practice, there would be a few "well-known" central servers that people use (the way many people just use https://pad.riseup.net/ for Etherpad today). One of those well-known servers can even be set as the default in the client code in Emacs. If some people want to use a different server instance to collaborate, all they have to do is set that variable, or specify the server through some interactive prompt.
This doesn't necessarily imply OT instead of CRDT or vice-versa. Still, despite the "CRDTs are the future" message at https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/, I suspect that for Emacs's purposes OT might be the better solution: simpler to implement and maintain. In any case, I hope development of this feature doesn't block on decentralization. While decentralization would be nice, it's not required; people can set up their own servers when they really need to.
Best regards,
-Karl
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[not found] <20200921120518.35d56p747pr5mhta.ref@Ergus>
2020-09-21 12:05 ` Question collaborative editing Ergus
2020-09-21 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 16:24 ` Ergus
2020-09-21 20:25 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-24 1:36 ` Ergus
2020-09-24 21:41 ` Fermin
2020-09-25 0:22 ` Ergus
2020-09-25 10:34 ` Fermin
2020-09-26 16:33 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 16:01 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-29 21:46 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 9:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-28 0:43 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 0:00 ` Fermin
2020-09-29 1:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-09-29 8:25 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 12:45 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 15:58 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-29 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-29 16:33 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-27 5:10 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-27 12:46 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 17:35 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Ergus
2020-09-29 23:40 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 0:13 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 0:47 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 7:40 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-30 13:19 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 17:00 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-02 18:48 ` Emacs + Etherpad compatibility? (was: Question collaborative editing.) Karl Fogel
2020-10-02 20:34 ` Emacs + Etherpad compatibility? Stefan Monnier
2020-10-03 10:01 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-30 13:46 ` Question collaborative editing Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 15:47 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 17:00 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 17:04 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 17:48 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-09-30 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 23:11 ` Ergus
2020-10-01 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 15:21 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-01 23:10 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-01 15:55 ` Ergus
2020-09-30 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01 14:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-01 16:01 ` Ergus
2020-10-01 16:44 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-01 16:53 ` Ergus
2020-10-01 17:29 ` Yuri Khan
2020-10-02 3:00 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-02 7:30 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-02 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 10:01 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-02 11:33 ` Ergus
2020-10-02 12:13 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-04 17:54 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Jean Louis
2020-10-04 18:45 ` Caio Henrique
2020-10-04 19:48 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-04 23:59 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 0:05 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 1:08 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-05 4:40 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-05 5:48 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 6:18 ` Qiantan Hong
[not found] ` <EC602765-9F1A-4269-9F2E-4F05C50AE1E7@mit.edu>
2020-10-05 8:07 ` crdt.el collaborative real time editing for Emacs Jean Louis
2020-10-05 8:22 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 14:03 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 17:05 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 18:17 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 14:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 8:51 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 3:53 ` crdt.el - collaborative " Jean Louis
2020-10-05 4:02 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Jean Louis
2020-10-05 4:11 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 5:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 6:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-05 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 7:31 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-05 8:44 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-05 17:20 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-06 1:03 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-06 1:41 ` T.V Raman
2020-10-06 8:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-06 17:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-20 16:15 ` Ergus
2020-10-20 17:11 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-20 18:51 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-26 20:36 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-27 21:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-10-27 22:45 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-29 16:21 ` Ergus
2020-10-28 16:29 ` Question collaborative editing - tools to connect Jean Louis
2020-10-28 16:40 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-28 17:13 ` Question collaborative editing - crdt.el, does it use SSL? Jean Louis
2020-10-28 21:51 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-28 22:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 23:08 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-29 5:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-02 9:47 ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-02 10:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 17:20 ` Question collaborative editing - torify emacs Jean Louis
2020-10-28 18:01 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-28 18:56 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-29 4:57 ` Question collaborative editing - tools to connect Richard Stallman
2020-10-31 4:16 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-31 5:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-20 18:21 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Jean Louis
2020-10-06 18:20 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-07 0:00 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 1:50 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-09 1:58 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-09 2:12 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 2:42 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-09 7:04 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 8:36 ` joakim
2020-10-09 13:33 ` Joe Corneli
2020-10-09 15:33 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-11 17:49 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-11 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-11 18:26 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-11 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-11 19:57 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-12 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-12 3:22 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-12 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-12 16:53 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-13 13:31 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-11 18:40 ` Joe Corneli via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-09 17:46 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-09 17:50 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 20:31 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-10 17:09 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-09 7:09 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-10-05 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20 16:37 ` Aurélien Aptel
2020-10-20 18:41 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-26 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-26 20:26 ` too many Jean Louis
2020-10-28 4:45 ` Question collaborative editing - Wikipedia reference Richard Stallman
2020-10-28 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 16:20 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-28 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 16:59 ` Jean Louis
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