Help me choose a goal for the month of December. The last poll showed a lot of interest in using the git-annex assistant with phones, etc.

Background: git-annex uses symbolic links in its repositories. This makes it hard to use with filesystems, such as FAT, that do not support symbolic links. FAT filesystems are the main storage available on some Android devices that have a micro-SD card. Other, newer Android devices don't have a SD card and so avoid this problem.

I can either work on the idea described in desymlink, which could solve the symlink problem and also could lead to a nicer workflow to editing files that are stored in git-annex.

Or, I can work on Android porting, and try to get the assistant working on Android's built-in storage.

[[!poll open=no 81 "solve the symlink problem first" 17 "port to Android first" 1 "other"]]

Posted Thu Feb 7 18:05:19 2013

Background: git-annex supports storing data in various special remotes. The git-annex assistant will make it easy to configure these, and easy configurators have already been built for a few: removable drives, rsync.net, locally paired systems, and remote servers with rsync.

Help me prioritize my work: What special remote would you most like to use with the git-annex assistant?

[[!poll open=yes 15 "Amazon S3 (done)" 12 "Amazon Glacier (done)" 9 "Box.com (done)" 68 "My phone (or MP3 player)" 18 "Tahoe-LAFS" 6 "OpenStack SWIFT" 25 "Google Drive"]]

This poll is ordered with the options I consider easiest to build listed first. Mostly because git-annex already supports them and they only need an easy configurator. The ones at the bottom are likely to need significant work. See cloud for detailed discussion.

Have another idea? Absolutely need two or more? Post comments..

Posted Thu Feb 7 18:05:19 2013
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