Platform Team/Sugar Network/Implementation

Summary

The requirements:

• Implement the initial server in a short period of time;
• Server should work on XO laptops;
• System should support synchronisation between distributed servers and provide full featured text search.

That's why using Active Document to:

• Server should be as simple/lightweight as possible;
• No SQL, just NoSQL;
• Since server should support full featured text search, use Xapian and keep it as a "NoSQL replacement" with storing data directly in files system;
• If server will start serving users from the Internet and current implementation won't manage to handle multiple requests, another implementation might be created.

Todo

• Network notifications framework to, e.g., let client cache resources and refetch them only on updates. Reuse existing or implement something similar to Facebook's real-time updates.
• Support collaborative work on Wiki pages for different resources.

Getting involved

• Submit your bug report or feature request.
• Browse our implementation discussions, and post your feedback. (You should join this discussion list in order to avoid having your messages postponed for moderation.)