History: Syncthing in WikiSuite

This is to brainstorm, make a roadmap and eventually develop interoperability between Syncthing and Tiki, in the contexte of WikiSuite.

Syncthing has no concept of users, just devices
Syncthing can't be used to share files via an email

ClearOS: How to have an instance available for each user? They should run as different users.
Maybe on a different port?
In the ClearOS GUI, users should be able to manage their Syncthing instance.
And they should have access to their FlexShare directories

How to have Tiki File Gallery interop?
Howto have interop with ClearOS Flexshares (Samba)
Should ClearOS devices per use be tracked in ClearOS's OpenLDAP?

Tiki-Syncthing interop

Use cases

• Isabelle has a directory of all files related to design, with subfolders by customer.
• Marcel works on various files, and Charles and others need access
• Files that are generated by a job or process
• Nathalie needs to privately share a video and has this problem: https://xkcd.com/949/
  • In the mean time, for non-private videos: https://framabin.org/ https://framadrop.org/

Wants

• Link to latest version of a specific file
• List all files (sorted)
• List only files from a specific customer
• List recent changes
• Compare with previous version (we'd need viewers / converters)
• Embed most recent version in relevant viewer (ex.: ViewerJS, PluginMediaPlayer)
• Share a file by email. So a unique URL permits to download a file which is managed by Syncthing
  • Useful for big files

Wiki Syntax

{syncthing folder=abc sort=lastmodified startatsubfolder="UQAM"}

Related feature requests on the Syncthing site:

• URL scheme to add/create/share folders/devices (i.e. syncthing://...) #776
• Seafile-like user separated logins? #2970

Related links

• A PHP implementation of the pulse/syncthing cluster discovery protocol