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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]]

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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.