Gwibber by default?

[Luke Macken]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:14:14AM -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think instead of trying to replace Gwibber, we should take a good hard
> > look at their (Ubuntu's) desktop-couch vision, and really see if it is
> > something we want to leverage (as they are putting a lot of resources
> > into it).  If not, we should patch this requirement out of Gwibber,
> > because afaik, it isn't using the couchdb for anything at the moment.
> 
> As Bill says, Gwibber uses desktop-couch to as a backend database.
> What really makes desktop-couch compelling though is the database
> pairing and replication support that it offers.  Right now desktop
> pairing and replication doesn't work "out of the box" in Fedora
> because you either need to open up some firewall ports or you need to
> add some code to connect to Canonical's "Ubuntu One" cloud service
> (which is another discussion in itself).

Yeah, getting the desktop-couch stack replication working "Out of the
box" (and documented) is a good first step.  As far as providing a
'cloud service', like Ubuntu One, from what I understood after talking
with the guy leading this initiative at Canonical, you can simply point
it at any couchdb and have it Just Work.  Of course, the apps themselves
need the hooks into this service too.

luke