Hi, I am working on the Jupyter Realtime Collaboration project (https://github.com/jupyterlab/rtc) and one of the requirement is to avoid Node.js as dependency for the user (we set Python only as dependency).

I understand that the Automerge Server requires Node.js.

Are there any plan or ways to have a Python implementation of the Automerge server?

Relaying

Agree. We have that notion in place in our experiments https://github.com/jupyterlab/rtc/tree/main/packages/relay

All it needs to do is establish that Alice and Bob are interested in the same topic,

Is it completely automerge agnostic? I would expect the interest in a topic resided in the content of the automerge CRDT messages?

Availability

Agree also with your explanations. On top of availability, server also allows to ensure persistence (in jupyter case, the persistence of the notebooks).

Authentication

+1