On 07/09/07, Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> Hi Robert!
>
> > I would like to apologize for this.  Don't sign up whatever you do.
>
> I admit my first thought was "How stupid is that guy?"... ;)
>
> But welcome to the Squeak community! :)
>
> And oh, btw, I noticed you are (still?) fishing for a thesis, here is one
> idea:
>
> Implement the idea of "publish/subscribe model of developer events" using
> p2p and investigate how it changes the interaction patterns within an open
> source community.
>
> This would cover p2p, collaboration and possibly also visual programming.
> It also does not really exist so the effects on a community would be
> "something new" to dissect. On the other hand it also slightly depends on
> you being successful in implementing it and getting users.
>
> The base idea is to add a publish subscribe model more or less on top of
> SystemChangeNotifier (which broadcasts events for every source code change
> you do) and then let each developer decide what to broadcast and what to
> subscribe to (globally).
>
> Then you can turn these events into visual cues in the development tools -
> like "2 other people on the globe has modified this class during the last
> hour" or "this class is being browsed by 5 other people right now" etc.
> Endless possibilities of near real time collaboration! :)
>

Ohh, that is very very ambitious :)
And this covers very wide range of problems/options.
I think it will be very sensitive from initial design. Its relatively
easy to establish a p2p network which will exchange events/messages.
The questions is, what would be the messages payload, what kinds
should be supported and etc etc.


> regards, Göran
>
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.