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Re: [LUG] Concurrent document writing

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> 
> For a group project we're currently using google docs to write up the 
> documentation. It's quite impressive, but there are a few annoying bugs 
> with it, and it's a little bit slow, which is frustrating at times.
> 
> Does anyone know of any open source software with similar capability?

"gobby" does concurrent edits to the same file over a network.

Not sure on the limitations, I had a play once, it is interesting.

It looks cool, but I think locking/conflict resolution has advantages
over collaborative editing, so something like mediawiki (and other CMS
tools - Drupal has a book tool I believe) have many of the advantages.

Often it is better to break the document up, or have tools that manage
documents at a finer grained level, than trying to edit large monolithic
documents between a bunch of people.

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