[ghns] ghns status, api, etc.

[Josef Spillner]

Hello,

Am Montag, 22. Juni 2009 15:45:28 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
> Josef, Jeremy, are you at GCDS? Perhaps we can discuss a few ideas in
> person.

I will be in the Islas Canarias for several days, but will be available at 
GCDS only until the 7th, not during the BoF days.

> I for one plan to support and push the open collaboration services API
> in the future. I´m in contact with people from other free software
> project who plan to support it also.
> I think it has the biggest potential to become a cross desktop and
> cross platform standard.

Personally, I'm all for a powerful collaboration services which find 
acceptance among many projects and which scale from single line of code 
invocations (current KNS2 download, for example) to more complex social 
interactions.

It would be good to see a compact analysis of what your methods provide over 
the current functionality. Then there's the difference between REST and SOAP 
APIs although I wouldn't see this as a major strategic issue because both 
could coexist and in fact all modern service framework technologies go for 
single-source dual stacks.

It will also be a requirement that at least one free implementation exists. 
Otherwise, KDE (or ghns.fd.o for that matter) would send out the wrong signal 
about free services and undermine many of the arguments of why people should 
migrate away from closed systems, including closed backend services and 
clouds.
Have a look at the disaster which is the handling of Amarok bug report about 
libre.fm support (#188952) to see how fast such issues can backfire at the 
developers....

Josef