What stage is this project in?

rcaelers / workrave-cloud-server

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What stage is this project in? #1

Open zhaostu opened 10 years ago

zhaostu commented 10 years ago

Hi,

I tried to run this project with no success, does this project do anything?

Thanks.

rcaelers commented 10 years ago

This project is work in progress and currently on-hold. In its current state, it contains only infrastructure and no real functionality.

zhaostu commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the reply. I was just in need of this sort of thing. I have plenty of computers including work ones, and I all have workrave on them. However as they are not synced, the breaks and stats I get are only good on one computer. Any suggestions?

absynce commented 7 years ago

I would like to use this option as well. Since I dual boot Windoze/Ubuntu I would like to sync between the two.

palfrey commented 7 years ago

Given this state of things I've got a couple of questions:

What's the licensing on the existing code if anyone else wants to pick this up and work with it (or at the very least use to learn things about Workrave before building an alternative)?
Was there any notable problems you ran into that others should be aware of, particularly if they caused the project to go on-hold? I'm guess it might have just been a matter of time/resources/interest, but sometimes these things pause because of some intrinsic problem and I'd love to know if there's one.

Thanks!

rcaelers commented 7 years ago

I have added a README and LICENSE file. This project is abandoned for several reason; both technical and non-technical:

Lack of time/motivation
other priorities (macOS/Qt5 Port, Wayland)
Django is not really designed to create API servers with server side events in my opinion.
gevent didn't work as expected (didn't report when a connection was closed if I recall correctly)
privacy/security/scalability concerns when storing other peoples Workrave data on my server.

I did a few more attempts to add cloud support using node.js (using loopback/express/passport/...). Never uploaded those to github. I tried to embed Node in Workrave. This would allow client and server side to be both javascript. And everyone can run their own server.

palfrey commented 7 years ago

Thanks for all that!