[Python-Dev] Google Wave as a developer communication tool (was: Issues with process and discussions (Re: Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr))

[Bill Janssen]

Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> 
> > I watched and was greatly impressed by the video demo of Google's new
> > Wave collaborative communication system. I believe it would/will help
> > with some of the chronic problems we (and others) have.
> 
> I watched that too. It appears to be heavily reliant on *very* fast
> internet access for participants in a wave. That's far from universal in
> the Python community, let alone the internet at large.

And on HTML 5.  Those of us using IE might be hosed, but perhaps Python
developers all use Firefox?  (I use Camino.)

> It also appears to be heavily reliant on the wave's existence at a
> single point of failure (the hosting server): if that one point becomes
> unreliable, all participants are hosed.

Well, they've got this server synchronization protocol.  Might mitigate
both problems.  I'm thinking about building a Python Wave server to run
in UpLib, if I can find the time.

Bill