Sharing and Publishing with Ubuntu One
- Establish use cases for publishing, sharing, and collaboration, and based on those, design what we want collaboration and sharing to be in U1.
- Publish folders (not only files).
- Re-evaluate published files URLs and having a short URL option.
- Easy story for sharing files (not only folders).
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Jason Warner
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Natalia Bidart
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Stuart Langridge
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
== Description (from Launchpad) ==
How do people want to make their files available to others?
There's the "you can see some of my files" model (letting user B "follow" user A), the "everyone can see some of my files" model (making a file "public"), the "work together on a project" model (users A and B can both see and edit the files for a project), the "collaboration" model (users A and B can see and edit the files for a project and can both edit the same file simultaneously), and others. How can Ubuntu One help with these models? What other models are there?
== Points ==
* If someone commits to his/her directory up in Ubuntu One, everybody who is following him/her automatically gets a new version.
* Distribution
- Time limiting shares (looking at how people actually use this)
o Automatically remove content after the time's up.
o Content stays on the "guest" computer but he/she will get updates no longer.
- Subscriptions to shares
- Publishing (files/folders)
o With individual files (not having the requirement to put it in a shared folder)
* Collection
* Working together
* Distribution folder created automatically on install in ~/Documents/
* options for the user receiving the shared items
* information for the user receiving the shared items
* Creating, changing settings, reminders of the shares
* Notifications: something was shared to you, remember you have something shared to you
== Epiphany ==
* groups folder for working together, so the notion of "my folder" is dropped (it turns out to ours)
== Questions ==
What people think about different models?
== Tasks ==
For each use case (collection, distribution, working together):
1. X shares something in the first place
2. X changes sharing settings
3. X still knows (a week/month/year later) that they have shared something
4. X unshares something
5. Y is notified that something has been shared with them
6. Y still knows (a week/month/year later) that something is share with them.
And if some use cases are deliberately excluded:
7. X understands that that use case is not catered for.
== Actions ==
* For each task in each use case, explore different applications doing similar things, and create a few alternate designs
- Check google docs, Microsoft Groove, microsoft SharePoint, others
- sketch how each of them might be expanded to cover the other use cases
* get user testing on: (e.g. paper prototyping)
- variations on share designs
- padlocks on read-only items
