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username="Gastlag"
subject="Is xmpp the problem ?"
date="2015-10-30T10:42:06Z"
content="""
Hello,
I was wondering why assistant \"is increasingly rarely used\" ?
if you look the different item of the survey http://git-annex-survey.branchable.com/polls/2015/, yes 53% of people said \"I use the assistant, but without XMPP\"
And \"missing ports\" :
- \"I'm good -- git-annex runs on my OSes of choice! (43%)\"
- \"Windows (13%)\"
- Android (6%)
But if you look other anwsers you see
- \"using with\" :
- by myself (59%)
- by myself so far but I hope to get others using my repository (28%)
And :
- \"Pick the operating system which you use git-annex on the most.\" :
- \"Linux (78%)\"
- \"OSX (13%)\"
Further more \"blocking problems\" :
- too hard to install (4%)
- too hard to use (7%)
- not good enough documentation (16%)
- The only use for the assistant would be in combination with a good, native, fully automagic Android version which includes some sort of native UI (16%)
- I use the command line, and **find it difficult to show others** how to use the git-annex assistant (12%)
- The lack of selective file sync (ie, git annex get and git annex drop) is what prevents me from using the Assistant (5%)
And \"focus\" :
- make it easier for nontechnical users (25%)
I think remove xmpp is a bad idea because as you say it's enable \"Friend discovery and easy sharing of git repo to friends.\" and there is already a lot of people who use xmpp and XMPP address are user friendly because close to email adress. And the main problem seems to be that git-annex assistant still too hard to use and not usable on the platform where users are : windows.
The main problem is that git-annex is still not ready for users. It have too reach other people than \"hardcore linux users\" to be a social tool and remove xmpp may not be the good solution.
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