On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Abente <martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I > take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started > sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion > before I get to that point.
ok - some notes from me on this topic For file management, I very strongly recommend using WebDAV. It is a bit less efficient than "real" network file system protocols, but the benefits are many: - more flexibilty - closer to you and me in the stack - you can easily find WebDAV toolkits in HLLs that allow you to expose your data as files and directories over WebDAV, as well as client implementations - it deals reasonably gracefully with intermittent connectivity (SMB/CIFS, NFS, etc get you nasty system freezes if the server disappears) - wide range of (fairly well behaved) client and server implementations - a good test suite for the server side - On the XS side... Moodle has a WebDAV implementation and Apache has one too. >From the department of optimizations to keep in mind early (but implement late...) -- if ds-backup is working correctly, you'll have most of the content already on the XS. Might be a nice optimisation to skip transferring it -- if you have a msg exchange *before* the WebDAV (or other) file transfer. > The very basic requirement is: each children must have its private > "cloud volume", where they can drop their files in the same way they > interact with physical external storage devices. Why would I drop the file there? In my understanding, what you want to do with it is *publish* it. > On top of that we can do a lot of things that might be very useful for > teachers daily in the classrooms. Yeah - *publish it to my classroom group* -- via Moodle. I've worked for ~10 years with teachers and that's what they want to do 99.9% of the time -- publish it to the group. If we do that nicely, we're golden. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
