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.

[invokablegmbh]

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!

[bendavis78]

@sunix was there any progress made on this? Do you have any links you could share?

[sunix]

@bendavis78 Hey no progress since august, we were at a point where for some reasons, the extension wasn't working in container. Would need more investigation. You could give a try though https://github.com/che-incubator/vscode-teletype-guest
(setting up a teletype host portal with Atom and try to join in with theia or vscode + the extension)

[JonasHelming]

We have discussed this feature in our dev call. There is a lot of interest from various stakeholders to support this in Theia. Therefore, I assign the label "community pulse". As a next step, we will investigate which stakeholder would be able to contribute to this or provide sponsoring. Furthermore, we will investigate how to implement it. If you are interested in this feature and/or are willing to contribute, please comment, so we can coordinate the efforts. Please note that we cannot promise to make this happen yet.

[JonasHelming]

Interested parties can review the first concept here: #12677

[JonasHelming]

see this screenshot: #12677 (comment)

[msujew]

I've created a draft implementation of this feature over at #13309. I'll improve the code some more in the coming days, but the feature is ready to test.

[msujew]

Initial feature for collaboration mode has been added in #13309 as the @theia/collaboration package.

Additional features will be contributed over time as they come available. I'll close this issue since the main features (i.e. workspace, file and cursor sharing) are now implemented.