On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:16 +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> On 07/09/07, G"oran 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.

Interesting comment :) BTW would it require more/other concepts than those  
described in

- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc977.txt

I'm interested to learning what concepts would need to be addressed beyond  
those in RFC 977 so, if you know/think about some please post. TIA.

/Klaus

> 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
>>
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