New Spec for easy network file sending
Corey Burger
corey.burger at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 07:44:36 BST 2007
On 4/17/07, Wolfgang Silbermayr <wolfgang at silbermayr.at> wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu-Devel List!
>
> Maybe some of you have already noticed that I wrote a specification for
> sending files from one computer to another over a local network. It can
> be found under
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/easy-network-filesending -
> I am waiting for your comments and ideas about this.
>
> Maybe somebody could give me a helping hand for the next steps that have
> to be taken, since this is my first spec. I am willing to implement a
> major part of this myself, but I would need some help starting the whole
> thing. Unfortunately I can not attend to UDS to discuss this topic
> there, not even over VoIP because I usually work on these days and the
> internet connection there is http only over a proxy server :(
>
> Greetings, Wolfgang.
Wolfgang,
A very useful spec, two major pieces:
The best way I can see this spec working is with the new telepathy
stuff. I know there is somebody working on something similar for
upstream GNOME, so I would recommend contacting them and get working
with them. Their spec is at:
http://code.google.com/soc/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=E4F16D57DEE9359E
As for the actual written spec, what is there is fairly well written,
but there are a few bits missing. The first and most important piece
are your use cases. The single use case you have is a little bit
complicated, nor have you considered all the use cases possible. The
implementation details are a little light on exactly what packages
need to changed and what pieces would need to be put into the default
install. However, given I recommend you use telepathy to do the actual
heavy lifting, those bits are going to change.
Cheers,
Corey
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