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doc/design/assistant.mdwn

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 Still being fleshed out, still many ideas and use cases to add.
 Feel free to chip in with comments! --[[Joey]]
 
+## the pitch
+
+The blue sky goal would be something automated like dropbox, except fully
+distributed. All files put into the repository would propagate out
+to all the other clones of it, as network links allow. Note that while
+dropbox allows modifying files, git-annex freezes them upon creation,
+so this would not be 100% equivalent to dropbox.
+
 ## roadmap
 
 * Month 1 "like dropbox": [[!traillink inotify]] [[!traillink syncing]]
 * Month 2 "shiny webapp": [[!traillink webapp]] [[!traillink progressbars]]
 * Month 3 "easy setup": [[!traillink configurators]]
-* Month 4: polishing and overflow; release
+* Month 4 "release": [[!traillink leftovers]]; release
 * Months 5-6 "9k bonus round": [[!traillink Android]]
 * In my overfunded nighmares: [[!traillink Windows]]

doc/design/assistant/leftovers.mdwn

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+Things that don't fit anywhere else:
+
+* Somehow get content that is unavailable. This is problematic with inotify,
+  since we only get an event once the user has tried (and failed) to read
+  from the file. This is only needed if all the files in the directory 
+  are not kept synced, but in some situations (ie, low disk space phones),
+  that is likely.
+* Drop files that have not been used lately, or meet some other criteria
+  (as long as there's a copy elsewhere).
+* Perhaps automatically dropunused files that have been deleted,
+  although I cannot see a way to do that, since by the time the inotify
+  deletion event arrives, the file is deleted, and we cannot see what
+  its symlink pointed to! Alternatively, perhaps automatically
+  do an expensive unused/dropunused cleanup process.