From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: bpt@tunes.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GSoC: collaborative editing
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:14:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ltpxp-0001ZW-N5@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdp8szuq.fsf@xemacs.org> (stephen@xemacs.org)
Basically what you're saying is "OK, let's impose an arbitrary total
ordering on the changes." Indeed that makes writing the collaborative
tool easier, but it also undermines collaboration by giving priority
to getting there *first* rather than doing it *better*.
With all due respect, I think that is a misunderstanding of the issue.
We are talking about editing conflicts on timescales of a few seconds.
If two people are trying to edit the same part of the text at the same
time, they are stepping on each other's feet. Which one does the
stepping "better" is hardly an issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-11 20:07 GSoC: collaborative editing Brian Templeton
2009-04-12 18:02 ` Michael Albinus
2009-04-13 1:22 ` Miles Bader
2009-04-13 9:08 ` Michael Albinus
2009-04-13 14:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-04-13 16:11 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-13 22:04 ` Brian Templeton
2009-04-13 22:49 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-14 3:41 ` Brian Templeton
2009-04-14 5:24 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-13 22:52 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-14 10:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-04-15 2:03 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-13 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-13 23:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-04-13 23:32 ` Brian Templeton
2009-04-14 3:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-14 4:02 ` Brian Templeton
2009-04-14 7:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-04-14 9:09 ` Brian Templeton
2009-04-15 2:02 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-14 21:14 ` Richard M Stallman [this message]
2009-04-15 2:18 ` Thomas Lord
2009-04-15 1:19 ` Brian Templeton
2009-04-15 1:27 ` Brian Templeton
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