reva VS ownCloud

Before I deep dive into the architecture of what I rebuilt the app during the hackathon, I would like to tell about my experiences in my words. When I first came across #GO Hack Challenge on devpost, I was overwhelming to find related tracks which I could be fit for and tutorials to enrich my knowledge here and there to get into it. It was really a learning opportunity to someone who is newbie and contribute or build any stuff under the hood. I stepped into the open source projects under CERN Foundation, where I didn’t even know what the ecosystem around the project is. I was much curious then. Next, I delved into one of the projects for a few days and looked into a few issues and made a small contribution to it by fixing one of the bugs. I moved to another track where we needed to build any app based on golang. I came to know about use of generic function which is currently released and used in Go >= 18 Version. I managed to rebuild an app using Gin-Gonic framework and use the generic function usage in my app.

The advantage of that above just a simple "these tests are allowed to fail" is that, after adding a feature or fixing a bug, the developer is forced to look into the tests. If tests start to pass, the only job the developer has to do, is to remove them from the expected-to-fail list, and what a joy is that 🎉. From that point on the test has to pass in all future runs, and we are sure not to introduce any regressions. If we would only have an allowed-to-fail list, there would be no pressure to remove tests from that list, humans are humans, so they would forget or miss some. Potentially a bug could get fixed, then see some regression again and none of that would be noticed by the test-suite. So let the computers do what they are good at - automate!

Also ownCloud, Seafile or Syncthing.

It connect * Droid-ify (version 0.3.5): Material-ify with Droid-ify. * Nighthawk Wallet (version 1.0.29): Shielded ZEC in your pocket. With T-address support & Auto-Shielding technology. * Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders (version 11.12): Fork of Astrid Tasks & To-Do List * Nextcloud Dev (version 20211027): Synchronization client * UnCiv (version 3.17.12): 4X civilization-building game * Fedilab (version 2.39.0): Fedilab is a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse, * Bubble (version 1.2): With Bubble you can measure angles and inclination * Suntimes (version 0.13.14): Sunlight and moonlight times (and alarms) * MedicLog (version 0.2.9): Log basic medical information * Smart EggTimer (version 1.6): With Smart EggTimer you can cook eggs perfectly. * ClassyShark3xodus - Scan apps for warnings (version 2.0-28): Scan apps for trackers * Catima — The Libre Card Wallet (version 2.8.1): For your barcodes, memberships, loyalty programs, coupons and tickets. * Hendroid (version 1.15.10): Doujinshi & Hentai-Manga archiving and viewing app * FairEmail (version 1.1768): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly * Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud (version 2.3.9): A photo album that saves all your precious memory in your private cloud * UntrackMe (version 1.20.0): Transform Youtube, Twitter & Instagram links to their free and open source alter * ownCloud (version 2.18.3): Add an ownCloud server now and get … Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way! * Easy Diary (version 1.4.172.11): A diary application optimized for user experience

ownCloud (version 2.18.2): Add an ownCloud server now and get … Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!

If you'd use something like your own http://owncloud.org/ you could have a pretty much google alternative for everything in once place. (Mail, Calendar, Documents, Photos, etc)

I want to set up a basic file storage/sharing cloud that I can use with my family (store files, photos, if possible, sync calendars). I have a few ideas in mind: owncloud.org, syncthing.net, nextcloud.com, and seafile.com, but I wonder which SBC to use? I could always get a RPi and attach a USB drive, but that's probably slow, something with SATA/eSATA connection or usb-c would make more sense. I have 150mbps (up/down) connection, so the speed shouldn't be an issue.

Let me show how it works at ownCloud. They are exactly in that situation, they have a stable and great product (ownCloud X written in PHP) but want to rewrite it in Go - OCIS (you can read about the reasons and background here). We as JankariTech have been working since 2017 for ownCloud to improve the test infrastructure, increase the coverage and reduce manual testing effort. As a result of this partnership, ownCloud has a huge API and UI test-suite that covers nearly all functionality of ownCloud X. How do you transfer that over to OCIS?

> Most rewrites fails because the team rewriting is not the team that did the initial development.

Looking at https://github.com/owncloud/core/graphs/contributors, most of the initial core contributors contribute now to Nextcloud instead.

I am interested in seeing how the rewrite affects end-users. Currently, it seems to be mainly focused on File Sync and I don't see things such as calendar or contacts management. (they totally could appear in the future though)

I'd assume that limiting the scope of components, makes a rewrite also easier. Nextcloud for example has a ton of hooks that allow you to write apps to customize the behaviour (want users to sign the ToS before downloading a share? Should be doable etc.). When you leave these out, implementing new things just got a whole lot easier :)

Disclaimer: Contributed to ownCloud for a few years, then to Nextcloud.