Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Request for Proposals on improving OpenACS with advanced document management facilities

Well, maybe this is too far off, but would it be possible to write a generic interface to file storage that would allow us to plug in various other file systems.

I'm thinking about rudimentary support for SMB, various file-sharing (P2P) networks.

Especially in the P2P area you could issue a search for a file, extend it to foreign sites and get a list of files you would like to download. Once the download is completed you get a notification that the file has arrived in the folder of your choice.

Talking about notifications. It seems that we do not have notifications on file-storage enabled. I've seen it working with AIESEC. If this is a wanted feature, Azri might squeeze this in before the feature freeze.