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committer | 2015-03-03 18:59:49 -0400 | |
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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_260__random_month.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_260__random_month.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35ed32fb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_260__random_month.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +This month is going to be a bit more random than usual where git-annex +development is concerned. + +* On Saturday, the [Seven Day Roguelike](http://7drl.org/) competition + begins, and I will be spending a week building a game in haskell, + to the exclusion of almost all other work. +* On March 18th, I'll be at the [Boston Haskell User's group](http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Haskell/events/219298257/). + (Attending, not presenting.) +* March 19-20, I'll be at Dartmouth visiting with the DataLad developers + and learning more about what it needs from git-annex. +* March 21-22, I'll be at the FSF's [LibrePlanet](https://libreplanet.org/2015) + conference at MIT. + +Got started on the randomness today with this +[[design proposal for using git-annex to back up the entire Internet Archive|design/iabackup]]. +This is something the Archive Team is [considering taking on](http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK), +and I had several hours driving and hiking to think about it and came up +with a workable design. (Assuming large enough crowd of volenteers.) + +Don't know if it will happen, but it was a useful thought problem to see how +git-annex works, and doesn't work in this unusual use case. + +One interesting thing to come out of that is that git-annex fsck does not +currently make any record of successful fscks. In a very large distributed +system, it can be useful to have successful fscks of an object's content recorded, +by updating the timestamp in the location log to say "this repository still +had the content at this time". |