Theia: Collaboration mode

[romanrehacek]

Hi,
I have one question. It is possible to work on code by multiple users at the same time? Like c9 ide https://docs.c9.io/docs/share-a-workspace#section-collaboration-features
I mean, when I share workspace URL with someone, I can see his typing live.

Thanks.

[jarmediagmbh]

Realtime collaboration is a feature quite hard to implement, though very nice to have!
However, for a first shot, it would be great to just have a notification, when editing a file that changed on the disk. This would prevent two pleople from overwriting each others file contents.

[sunix]

FYI, we have plans to work on it (as part of Eclipse Che) for the next GSoC. You are very welcome to join the effort :)

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Ideas#Topic_1:_Co_Editing

[Mustafa-C]

Any update on this? Switching from C9 to Theia as soon as this is implemented.

[sunix]

@Mustafa-C we are going to work on this this summer :)

[akosyakov]

fyi live-share does not have MIT license and can be used only from Microsoft Visual Studio family of products: https://microsoftdocs.github.io/live-share/license/eula.html

[sunix]

fyi live-share does not have MIT license and can be used only from Microsoft Visual Studio family of products: https://microsoftdocs.github.io/live-share/license/eula.html

yes, we will implement a flow with Atom Teletype.

[glingy]

Any update on this? I'd love to see this as a part of this editor.

[binary-person]

I dearly wish for this collab feature to be implemented. I'm currently using cloud9, which is already good but lacks maintaining (last commit was like years ago) and a bit too buggy.

I can't wait for this feature to be implemented. It gonna be big.
May the collaborators of this repo post their status?

[bendavis78]

@sunix was there any progress on this at GSoC?

[sunix]

hello yes, we will continue on this, this summer: so far, we have a Atom Teletype guest that is starting to work on VSCode.

[AP-Hunt]

Do you have any time frames for when we could expect to see the first alpha releases of the stuff you're working on?

[sunix]

hey, @Rijul5 will give a weekly update during the Che community meeting: https://github.com/eclipse/che/wiki/Che-Dev-Meetings

[AP-Hunt]

Excellent, thanks!