Re: Tools for Sharing Tasks

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

git isn't designed as a sharing protocol. It's a source control tool. People have tried to take some of the versioning technology behind git and adapt it to other things (SparkleShare, there are some git-backed issue trackers, etc.)

As a simple example, what happens when you have a merge conflict? There's a miscommunication, and one guy sets the task from OPEN to DONE, and another guy sets it from OPEN to INPROGRESS.

When they try to share tasks, git is going to fail and ask them to edit a file with:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

DONE
================

INPROGRESS

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

unless you're smart about how you present merge conflicts.

This is just an example, and I could come up with a large number of other reasons why git's power is a deficiency when trying to build a usable simple sharing system. I don't believe in the technology behind git as a simple way to share stuff. It's too tied to source code and programmers. I think a simple pub/sub model, either using XMPP, or an open-source service (Snowy), or something else, is simpler and the easier way to go.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

This is a somewhat technical question, I hope this is the right place
for it.

I'm writing a GTK application which manages tasks and projects. At the
moment it's more or less like GTG (Getting Things Gnome). I want to add
task sharing, and I've been thinking what's the right way to do that.

I checked what other people do. GTG uses the XMPP pubsub extension
(publish & subscribe), which seems to do the job, but it's not exactly
designed for sharing tasks. It does work, but it requires you to setup
the server.

I've been thinking and I found another idea: use a git repository.

This way people can easily watch how projects develop - this way we
easily achieve the publish&subscribe capability - and sharing tasks
between team members is as easy as working with git, which is already
very common. Task sync is simple sync of files in the repo. And it
doesn't require any extra work: starting a new local git repo is
extremely easy by typing "git init", and starting a repo on a server is
done by creating a user on gitorious and creating a repo there.

Some sites don't offer private repos for free, but encryption will be
used anyway to allow maximal privacy anyway, so it shouldn't be a
problem. (GitLab offers 10 private repos for no charge if you really
need 100% privacy)

I'd like to hear more ideas and make a wise decision, which tool is the
best one for task sharing. Git sounds very good to me, but I'm not an
expert (just a software engineering student, actually).


- Anatoly

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