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Joey Hess b6d46c212e git-annex (5.20140402) unstable; urgency=medium
* unannex, uninit: Avoid committing after every file is unannexed,
    for massive speedup.
  * --notify-finish switch will cause desktop notifications after each
    file upload/download/drop completes
    (using the dbus Desktop Notifications Specification)
  * --notify-start switch will show desktop notifications when each
    file upload/download starts.
  * webapp: Automatically install Nautilus integration scripts
    to get and drop files.
  * tahoe: Pass -d parameter before subcommand; putting it after
    the subcommand no longer works with tahoe-lafs version 1.10.
    (Thanks, Alberto Berti)
  * forget --drop-dead: Avoid removing the dead remote from the trust.log,
    so that if git remotes for it still exist anywhere, git annex info
    will still know it's dead and not show it.
  * git-annex-shell: Make configlist automatically initialize
    a remote git repository, as long as a git-annex branch has
    been pushed to it, to simplify setup of remote git repositories,
    including via gitolite.
  * add --include-dotfiles: New option, perhaps useful for backups.
  * Version 5.20140227 broke creation of glacier repositories,
    not including the datacenter and vault in their configuration.
    This bug is fixed, but glacier repositories set up with the broken
    version of git-annex need to have the datacenter and vault set
    in order to be usable. This can be done using git annex enableremote
    to add the missing settings. For details, see
    http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/problems_with_glacier/
  * Added required content configuration.
  * assistant: Improve ssh authorized keys line generated in local pairing
    or for a remote ssh server to set environment variables in an
    alternative way that works with the non-POSIX fish shell, as well
    as POSIX shells.

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Thanks to my recent successful git-annex
[crowdfunding campaign](http://campaign.joeyh.name/), $1000 has been set
aside to award others for their contributions to git-annex by
the end of 2013. This is not a lot of money, but I hope that the
reward and recognition will encourage some more people to work on git-annex.
You don't need to know Haskell! You could contribute some interesting and
useful special remote hooks, or write better documentation.
On the other hand, if you have learned Haskell, this might be your first
chance to make some money with it! Some ideas for things to work on that
would be particularly award-worthy:
* Port git-annex to IOS, using [ghc-ios](https://github.com/ghc-ios).
I don't plan to ever do this myself, but you could make it happen.
* Get the git-annex assistant working in Windows, building on the existing
port to Windows. Otherwise, this is on my roadmap for February.
* Solve existing [[bugs]] or [[todo]] items. There are more than I can
keep up with.
The amount of the awards will vary depending on the size of the
contribution. Since this is getting started later than is ideal,
I reserve the right to extend it past the end of the year if I don't get
enough participants.
If you'd like to participate in this program, just email me at
<id@joeyh.name>. --[[Joey]]