On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Klaas Freitag <frei...@owncloud.com> wrote:
> On 15.03.2016 19:56, Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > Hi Tomaz, > > first, thanks for your proposal, sounds interesting. > > I think its way to ambitious, as stuff is complicated, but well, go for it > :) > > Me and my collegues from the client team are willing to help you and > mentor if you want. > > Please, as a first thing, read through this blog: > https://dragotin.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/incremental-sync-in-owncloud/ > > Let me know what you think! > > Thanks, > > Klaas > Klaas, I'm a ambitious person :) and I finished a Gtk to Qt fairly complex application for Linus Torvalds a few years ago - that was a *very* ambitious thing to do. I'm reading the blogpost as we speak. Tomaz > > >> I'm Tomaz Canabrava, student of Computer Science in the Federal Institute >> of São >> Paulo and a long time KDE Contributor. >> >> I Wanna try to apply for GSoC doing the Large File Sync on Owncloud - >> below is >> my proposal. >> >> I understand that there is the "two patches rule" to be part of OwnCloud >> summer >> of code, and I already installed the code - but currently I'm on vacation >> without a computer, I'm getting home tomorrow and I'll start doing this. >> >> Thanks for your time. >> Tomaz Canabrava >> -------- >> >> Large File Sync >> >> Motivations: >> >> Currently OwnCloud doesn't handle well binary data or large files, a >> single bit >> difference can make a huge impact on data usage over the network, for the >> entire >> file needs to be re-uploaded to the server instead of changing just a few >> chunks >> of bits. A few applications already implement the sync for any file, for >> instance rsync and dropbox clients. >> >> Time Table: >> >> 2 days - study the different file sync architectures and approaches on >> rsync >> 2 days - study the data architecture on OwnCloud >> 4 - 5 days - implement a proof of concept, local, php sync server / c++ >> client >> 2 - 3 days - with the knowledge gained by the proof of concept, create a >> more >> comprheensive architecture that can fit the current OwnCloud to replace >> the >> current file upload mechanism. >> >> 1 week - implement the first draft on owncloud, still using the c++ client >> created for testing purposes >> 2 weeks - implement the needed parts on the owncloud client side and fix >> bugs on >> the server side. >> >> with one client working correctly, then I would start changing every >> client to >> correctly handle the file updates: android, iOS and Desktop, wich would >> probably >> eat the rest of the time table, leaving time for bug fixes and code >> cleanup. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@owncloud.org >> http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@owncloud.org > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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