Re: Collaborative editing.

[Qiantan Hong]

Hi guys!

Sorry I've been busy lately and haven't seen this till now.

>>> Could we try to add crdt to Elpa? Is the author somehow opposed to do the 
>>> paperwork or so?
I've already done the paperwork! Our school's office was quite slow but it's 
done now.

>>
>>The package still seems to be on version 0.0.0, and the HACKING[0] file
>>indicates that a few intended items are not implemented yet. It might
>
>>make sense to push for a preliminary version to be published as to
>>provide a basic collaborative environment available on ELPA (or NonGNU
>>ELPA if necessary), and then later work on full-compatibility.
Those few intended items was in fact rather very ambitious plan,
and not necessarily needed for "usual" collaboration experience.
They're suppose to enable support for, say, sharing a XScheme.el
buffer with an active running process so people can share a Lisp image
through Emacs.

Basically all functionalities for "usual" collaboration editing are all already 
implemented.

I'm happy to release crdt.el into either ELPA, or into mainstream Emacs
(maybe after it's battle tested on ELPA first)!

There are indeed issue about the difficulty in debugging, there is an open issue
on librehq that I still haven't reproduced yet.
It may help if we have a larger testing base.
I think it will also be very helpful if some other hackers get to understand
the internal of crdt.el and could hack when they happen to trigger some bugs,
as debugging another user's Emacs via carbon-based bio-SSH is hard.

Best,
Qiantan