2015-03-03 22:59:49 +00:00
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This month is going to be a bit more random than usual where git-annex
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development is concerned.
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* On Saturday, the [Seven Day Roguelike](http://7drl.org/) competition
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begins, and I will be spending a week building a game in haskell,
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to the exclusion of almost all other work.
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* On March 18th, I'll be at the [Boston Haskell User's group](http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Haskell/events/219298257/).
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(Attending, not presenting.)
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* March 19-20, I'll be at Dartmouth visiting with the DataLad developers
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and learning more about what it needs from git-annex.
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* March 21-22, I'll be at the FSF's [LibrePlanet](https://libreplanet.org/2015)
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conference at MIT.
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Got started on the randomness today with this
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[[design proposal for using git-annex to back up the entire Internet Archive|design/iabackup]].
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This is something the Archive Team is [considering taking on](http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK),
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and I had several hours driving and hiking to think about it and came up
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2015-03-04 22:54:44 +00:00
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with a workable design. (Assuming large enough crowd of volunteers.)
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2015-03-03 22:59:49 +00:00
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Don't know if it will happen, but it was a useful thought problem to see how
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git-annex works, and doesn't work in this unusual use case.
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One interesting thing to come out of that is that git-annex fsck does not
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currently make any record of successful fscks. In a very large distributed
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system, it can be useful to have successful fscks of an object's content recorded,
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by updating the timestamp in the location log to say "this repository still
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had the content at this time".
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