plugins for etherpad lite

[John McLear]

It's taken a while but the plugin framework is now bearing fruits..
What's new?

ep_headings Adds heading support to Etherpad Lite. IE change font
size
ep_tokbox Video conferencing and video chat in your Etherpad Lite
pads powered by tokbox
ep_sketchspace Drawing and image annotation
ep_fileupload File upload
ep_linkify Adds internal links to etherpad lite. This is a plugin for
etherpad lite, so you'll need to install etherpad-lite to use it.
ep_disable_change_author_name A plugin to stop users from being able
to change their names
ep_imageconvert Convert and cut images on the fly for download

It's only available on the develop branch & comes with free apples.

[Joe Corneli]

How does this featureset stack up against hackpad?

[John McLear]

Hackpad is relevant why?

[Joe Corneli]

I'm just saying, it seems like we're close to having the same (or
more) set of features they have, but completely open. If so, it's
good to advertise that. If we are missing one or two features, then
maybe we want to put some energy into those, so that we are at feature
parity with them.

[John McLear]

Yep

[Jason Calacanis]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Joe Corneli <holtze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just saying, it seems like we're close to having the same (or
> more) set of features they have, but completely open.  If so, it's
> good to advertise that.  If we are missing one or two features, then
> maybe we want to put some energy into those, so that we are at feature
> parity with them.

I just started playing with HackPad.

1. Cool: They have an internal invite/alert system so you can put @
and a drop down with users and other 'pads come up for hyperlinking. I
like this, but I would rather it link to a twitter handle.

2. Chat: They took out the chat window. Odd.

3. They have a cool desktop notifier that sits next to your spotlight
and wifi and dropbox icons on a mac.

Other than that it just feels like a stripped down version with a nicer skin.

Are they contributing their updates back?

best j

[John McLear]

No they aren't.  Hackpad isn't an open source project.  It's a spawn of the old Etherpad w/ a few new features.  The Etherpad foundation's goal is to encourage hackpad to adopt etherpad lite given time.  We have to make it enough of a value proposition for them though..  FYI their CEO sits on these forums so he can probably pop in and say hi and answer your questions better than me :P

[Tim Colson]

Hi folks -- I can't keep an Etherpad-Lite server running for more than a few minutes before somebody crashes it due to a null pointer error reading the "headers" object, as reported here: https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/544

I can check for headers being null, but what would be the best thing to do at that point to recover rather than shut-down?

147 var headers = responseCache[cacheKey].headers;

Thanks,

Tim