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Made a release today. Releasing has sure gotten easier with all the
autobuilds to use!
I am now using git-annex to share files with my mom. Here's how the webapp
looks for our family's repository. Soon several of us will be using this
repository.
[[!img assistant/example.png]]
We're using XMPP and rsync.net, so pretty standard setup much like
shown in my last screencast.
Real-world deployments help find bugs, and I found a few:
* If you're running the webapp in `w3m` on a remote computer to set it up,
some forms are lacking submit buttons. This must be a issue with
Bootstrap, or HTML5, I guess. I switched to `lynx` and it offers a
way to submit forms that lack an explicit button.
* Progress bars for downloads from encrypted rsync repos don't update
during the actual download, but only when gpg is decrypting the
downloaded file.
* XMPP pushes sometimes fail still. Especially when your mom's computer
is saturating its limited outgoing network connection uploading hundreds of
photos. I have not yet determined if this is a packet loss/corruption issue,
or if the XMPP messages are getting out of order. My gut feeling is it's
the latter, in which can I can fix this pretty easily by adding sequence
numbers and some buffering for out of order packets. Or perhaps just
make it retry failed pushes when this happens.
Anyway, I found it was useful to set up a regular git repository on a
server to suppliment the git pushes over XMPP. It's helpful to have
such a git repository anyway, so that clients can push to there when the
other client(s) are not online to be pushed to directly over XMPP.
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