Re: Starting to contribute.

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:03 +0000, John Carr wrote:
> Thank you for your response Colin.
> 
> Is your position on this likely to change? 

It's certainly possible...I'd love if online.gnome.org had tons of
features.  It's just that we need more work (e.g. encryption, a backup
story) to get to the point where we can support real data.

> If not then perhaps your
> plans for online desktop need to remove the Tomboy case study (Sprints
> page of live.gnome.org) as it gives the wrong impression about the
> scope of online desktop...

I think it's still in scope.

> Or to put it another way - we already speak to most of the interesting
> parts of the desktop and to lots of cool webservices. We thought
> online desktop was a natural extension of that kind of work but have
> clearly missed its scope by quite a wide margin... So right now i'm
> not sure exactly what I could sync to online desktop, and why thats
> any better than syncing to any other webservice. 

Right, conduit's "rsync" approach doesn't conflict with
online.gnome.org.  We're trying to bake storage of certain data like
preferences into the OS by default to a primary server, whereas Conduit
lets you do a lot more but you have to put more pieces together.