EtherPad Open Source Release • Hacker News Board

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#11

Post by grinich » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:02 AM UTC

Wow, that was fast.

Huge thanks to both the Appjet team and Google for doing this.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#12

Post by dimarco » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:03 AM UTC

houseabsolute wrote: post #9

dimarco wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a ton of Scala in there.

Where? I only sampled a few directories, couldn't find anything except js.

Check the 'infrastructure' at the root.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#13

Post by ique » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:05 AM UTC

I have my last final today. This comes as a perfect school-is-over-and-i-can-start-hacking-again gift! I'm hoping to be able to integrate LaTeX export into this so I can collaborate on LaTeX reports without having to download and build manually.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#14

Post by staunch » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:08 AM UTC

Thanks to The Google & The Etherpads!

I fully expect to see 30 different sites offering this now, and HN to be full of links to them tomorrow.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#15

Post by MikeCapone » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:13 AM UTC

Well, that sure isn't being evil. Thanks!

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#16

Post by paraschopra » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:15 AM UTC

jsomers wrote: post #3

Man, I can't wait to build this locally. In its raw form I expect it to work great for essay writing, etc., but I can imagine all kinds of cool modifications, like allowing cross-pad hyperlinks. Let the hacking begin! Edit: I realize that a local build makes very poor use of etherpad's killer feature--its super-fast realtime collaboration--but the biggest draw for me was actually their "playback" mode.

Yes, a cool feature would be to let multiple etherpads talk to each other. Sort of like Google wave :)

Also imagine HN (or any other forum) working on some sort of similar platform. Threaded chats I would say.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#17

Post by colinplamondon » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:19 AM UTC

Awesome! You guys handled this incredibly well, and open sourcing with an Apache license is super classy. Can't wait to see what comes of this, and starting up our own internal instance. Thank you!

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#18

Post by anotherjesse » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:26 AM UTC

I want it so I code do:

    % etherclient foo.txt
    etherclient accepting from http://example.com/as213

Then I can share the url with co-workers. The pad is initialized with the contents of foo.txt and then updates are sent.

Then make it be more project based. Then integrate revision control.

Perhaps I should sleep instead of reading code.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#19

Post by ludwig » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:29 AM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #2

the mob has spoken

The mob is sated....for now.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#20

Post by kroo » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:33 AM UTC

Hopefully this will lead to strong community around real-time eventual-consistency text synchronization. Here a link to etherpad's implementation of their magic algorithm: http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/etherp... -- though it's pretty tightly integrated with their editor component, "ACE".