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[Natan Yellin <aantny@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/05/10 20:41, Diego Moya wrote:
> > So my four dimensions for cloud storage are these:
> > - Location: Connected vs Disconnected.
> > - Speed: Fast vs Slow medium.
> > - Persistence: Saved vs Unsaved.
> > - Sharing: Published vs Private.
> >
>
> I think this is good analysis and an interesting idea.
>
> +1 to the meme of autosaving, autoversioning, and persistent undo (undo
> that survives quit).
> +1 to the idea of automatic replication.
>
> I'm pretty certain this should not be per-file, though. The idea should
> be to convey the state of the device in general, and perhaps of an
> individual application. This is the 21st century moral equivalent of the
> "dirty" bit, the indication that a file needed saving.
>
I'm not crazy about autoversioning, because it becomes awfully difficult to
find what you need if you have a revision for every line that you ever
changed. I'd rather see a model where every file is saved automatically and
"Hard Saves" provide a way for the user to commit a revision.