From 90eea19ea2bc96070fef376cb4d35df35a1c49e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:21:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] blog for the day --- .../assistant/blog/day_89__final_polish.mdwn | 24 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/design/assistant/blog/day_89__final_polish.mdwn diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_89__final_polish.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_89__final_polish.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4a72a7ff23 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_89__final_polish.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Finally wrapped up progress bars; upload progress is now reported in all +situations. + +After all that, I was pleased to find a use for the progress info, beyond +displaying it to the user. Now the assistant uses it to decide whether it +makes sense to immediately retry a failed transfer. This should make it +work nicely, or at least better, with flaky network or drives. + +The webapp crashed on startup when there was no `~/.gitconfig`. +Guess all of us who have tried it so far are actual git users, +but I'm glad I caught this before releasing the beta. + +Jimmy Tang kindly took on making a OS X .app directory for git-annex. +So it now has an icon that will launch the webapp. +[[!img /assistant/osx-app.png]] + +I'm getting lots of contributors to git-annex all of a sudden. I've had 3 +patches this weekend, and 2 of them have been to Haskell code. +Justin Azoff is working on [[todo/incremental_fsck]], and Robie Basak +has [gotten Amazon Glacier working](https://github.com/basak/glacier-cli) +using the hook special remote. + +Started doing some design for [[transfer_control]]. I will start +work on this after releasing the first beta.