[Seaside-dev] P2P CMS/PM system with SeaSide and TeaTime

[Andreas Raab]

Hi Aran -

I'm not sure who you talked to but there's really no meaningful 
definition of the term "P2P" that applies to Teatime as implemented in 
Hedgehog (which is what Cobalt is built upon). Teatime is a 
synchronization mechanism for distributed objects, but it can be built 
with or without using P2P communication. Early Teatime versions used P2P 
(rather: multi-cast) but the version implemented in Hedgehog (and 
Cobalt) does not use P2P communication, for various reasons.

 From what I've seen in the Cobalt discussions[1,2], I would agree with 
the person who mentioned the replication features of CouchDB or similar. 
It looks like this would be a better and more straightforward fit with 
what you've been describing in that discussion.

[1]http://groups.google.com/group/opencobalt/browse_thread/thread/ae071311a099be9a
[2]http://groups.google.com/group/opencobalt/browse_thread/thread/9829a8971570ba5c

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 1/10/2011 3:12 PM, Aran Dunkley wrote:
> Hi, I'm part of a development team who are helping an organisation to
> architect a free CMS based project-management system that they want to
> work in a P2P network rather than using a centralised web-server.
>
> We've researched existing CMS's such as Plone to see if they could be
> modified to operate on top of a DHT but found that they rely too heavily
> on querying methodologies that are incompatible with the P2P paradigm.
>
> I talked to the OpenCobalt developers and they were very positive about
> the feasibility of the idea and gave me a lot of good advice and links
> to check out including Seaside which seems like it could the ideal
> technology to build our system in.
>
> We have a specific application in mind that we'd like to develop which
> is a project-management/workflow environment running in a CMS with some
> other standard tools such as wiki/blog, but rather than a web-server
> we'd be using a local P2P app as the backend. I'm wondering what you
> guys, the Seaside developers think of the idea of extracting the TeaTime
> P2P aspect of OpenCobalt and running Seaside on it so we could build P2P
> browser-based applications?
>
> We have a good budget available for this and will be developing it as a
> completely free open source system, so we'd also like to hear from
> developers who may be interested in working on the project too.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Aran
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