You could take a look at the code that Abiword has. They have a feature to do this by Bonjour/Avahi, Jabber and proper collaboration servers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/7 Norbert Thiebaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nthiebaud@gmail.com">nthiebaud@gmail.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Riccardo Bernardini<br> <<a href="mailto:framefritti@gmail.com">framefritti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > This feature is my "personal itch" since I would actually use to write<br> <br> </div>that is usually the best motivation to achieve anything in opensource :-)<br> <div class="im"><br> > "many-hands" documents together with colleagues. Moreover, it would be<br> > an important feature of LibreOffice, not shared by other editing<br> > solutions.<br> ><br> </div>[...]<br> <div class="im">><br> > 1. Are you aware if this type of capability is already available (I<br> > do not think so) or currently developed?<br> <br> </div>Not that I'm aware of... but I've recall seeing some discussion of<br> people on the ML itching a similar topic (i.e how to store document in<br> a git-friendly manner, altough IIRc that was not for 'sharing per say,<br> but simply for the change-tradcking aspect)<br> <div class="im"><br> > 2. Has the LibreOffice community some interest in this idea? If it<br> > has, this would give us a stronger motivation.<br> <br> </div>The 'LibreOffice community', just like most, rarely has a single mind.<br> But in the end the question is not 'are you for it', but 'is there a<br> showstopper that would make you against it'<br> <div class="im"><br> > 3. Do you have some general suggestions for us? Especially about<br> > interfacing the rest of the developers.<br> <br> </div>My suggestion woud be: do as you would for any open source community:<br> show-up, do some work, get yourself known for your work<br> Lead by example to attract people that will find your itch something<br> they are interested i... and code is much more convincing than talk.<br> Engage on this ML, on IRC, read the relevant part of the Wiki, get<br> familiar with the build process by doing some easy hacks...<br> The Dev Community is pretty welcoming to new dev of any level and skill.<br> <br> On a higher level, smaller incremental changes are easier to get in<br> than big-bad dump. so try to break-down you itch in manage-ably small<br> feature, preferably that do not break things :-) and get them in one<br> at the time... or instance working on improving, if need be, the<br> 'uncompressed/flat' odf format... then saving directly in a git repo<br> (with commit and all), then managing git conflict-resolution, then<br> managing push/pull... (this is just an example based on your<br> description.. I have no idea what the real technical/functional hurdle<br> are...)<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> Norbert<br> </font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> LibreOffice mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>