3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin

Research Article

Active Notifications

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553862,
        author={Prasun Dewan and Henry McEuen},
        title={Active Notifications},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={Notification  active mail  computational mail  document sharing  version control},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553862}
    }
    
  • Prasun Dewan
    Henry McEuen
    Year: 2008
    Active Notifications
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553862
Prasun Dewan1,*, Henry McEuen2,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
  • 2: ITA Software, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
*Contact email: dewan@cs.unc.edu, hmceuen@itasoftware.com

Abstract

Some modern version-control systems automatically generate notifications as side effects of checking-in versions. We consider here the dual idea of automatically checking-in versions as side effects of manual email notification about them. This approach combines the benefits of current email, file, and version-control systems, offering a familiar and available userinterface, version management, and actor and observer control on sharing. It can be designed to (a) allow its benefits to be proportional to the degree of autonomy among the systems of various collaborators, and (b) co-exist with existing sharing approaches.