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==== Research projects: code exists, but more-or-less unpolished, and it would be awesome to get one of these really working well ====

==== Research projects: code exists, but more-or-less unpolished, and it would be awesome to get one of these really working well ====

* [[DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite#Versioned_entries_.28not_fulfilled_yet.29|Version support]] for [[Journal]] / [[DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore|DataStore]]: create a new version for each (automatic or manual) Keep with the same name / tags, create a branch if metadata was changed. Allow the user to access "older" versions (Keeping and "old" version will create a branch) and view ancestry (tree of branches). See also (old) [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs Olpcfs] and (newer; less-documented; based on an RCS backend and a relatively small amount of fuse magic) [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcfs2/ olpcfs2].

* [[DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite#Versioned_entries_.28not_fulfilled_yet.29|Version support]] for [[Journal]] / [[DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/sugar.datastore.datastore|DataStore]]: create a new version for each (automatic or manual) Keep with the same name / tags, create a branch if metadata was changed. Allow the user to access "older" versions (Keeping and "old" version will create a branch) and view ancestry (tree of branches). See also (old) [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs Olpcfs] and (newer; less-documented; based on an RCS backend and a relatively small amount of fuse magic) [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcfs2/ olpcfs2].

* There is also [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal%2C_reloaded Journal, reloaded]], another research project with real code behind it that is promising but languishing. In this case, the idea is to make the journal "tagging" view transparently compatible with a traditional hierarchical directory structure.  

* There is also [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal%2C_reloaded Journal, reloaded], another research project with real code behind it that is promising but languishing. In this case, the idea is to make the journal "tagging" view transparently compatible with a traditional hierarchical directory structure.  

* bemasc's [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/bemasc/groupthink/ groupthink], expanded: The idea is to have a data structure which keeps itself in sync across many laptops "behind the scenes", thus providing drop-in collaboration as long as the structure in question provides the needed functionality. The problem is that the existing code is unpolished, and only supports some pretty limited data structures. I have some ideas of [[how groupthink could be more general]]. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 00:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

* bemasc's [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/bemasc/groupthink/ groupthink], expanded: The idea is to have a data structure which keeps itself in sync across many laptops "behind the scenes", thus providing drop-in collaboration as long as the structure in question provides the needed functionality. The problem is that the existing code is unpolished, and only supports some pretty limited data structures. I have some ideas of [[how groupthink could be more general]]. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 00:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)