[Qgis-psc] On using Nextcloud for editing documents

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

I just tested editing document on a Nextcloud demo instance 
(https://try.nextcloud.com/). There was definitely no lagging when 
editing documents there and it worked really smooth. There must be an 
issue with the OSGEO Nextcloud instance - or the fact that all our key 
strokes must travel across the oceans and back ...

But the strange thing was: editing of .md files worked, but I couldn't 
edit .odf files. It would offer a download of it, but no collaborative 
editing of odf files as I expected it - strange!

Andreas

Am 12.04.20 um 10:39 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
> Hi,
>
> I tested editing the "environmental policy" draft on Nextcloud in 
> order to get a better feeling about the usability. I think 
> functionality wise it would probably ok for our needs, but the lagging 
> is really, really disturbing and I agree with Tim that hurts 
> productivity substantially.
>
> I wonder what the reason is and if we could do something to improve it?
>
> As I understand it, all of the OSGEO servers are located in the US. I 
> wonder if this is the reason for the annoying lags. As far as I know 
> all major internet companies try to have their infrastructure as close 
> as possible to their customers, when latency is an issue. When it 
> comes to collaborative editing, keeping the latency and lagging as 
> small as possible is important for the usability. Having our Nextcloud 
> server based in the US when all of the PSC members are currently based 
> in Europe doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
>
> I wonder if it would help to have a Nextcloud instance somewhere in 
> Germany or Middle-Europe? But then again, someone would have to 
> maintain a piece of infrastructure ... something we would like to avoid.
>
> I believe I saw a hosted Nextcloud service at Hetzner, an option we 
> could rent, but not having to maintain it ourselves - but I can't find 
> it. Maybe I was wrong or they retracted it?
>
> Maybe someone knows a good managed Nextcloud service in Europe that we 
> could try if it makes any difference? Because in the current state I 
> don't think I would be happy to use it for the QGIS.ORG PSC documents.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
>
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