git-annex is now 8 years old, and has a good number of users. What general area do you think development should focus on now?

just general maintenance, keep it working and fix bugs (13%)


make it easier for nontechnical users (31%)


make it more suitable for collaboration inside larger groups/organizations (ie, game developers, scientists, archivists) (19%)


port it to more platforms (0%)


performance (15%)


reliability (4%)


improve the existing ports (3%)


improve documentation (5%)


get more of the functionality merged into vanilla git, to have at least rudimentary interactions with git-only users (1%)


reliability features (e.g. being able to query when a file was last fsck'd on any device, consistent hashing to shard across devices) (2%)


features that widen applicability to data storage problems that are not currently well-served (think outside the box, eg. system backups, media galleries, large file sharing via email) (1%)


The documentation on configuration was not easy for me to use. I had to jump around lots of man pages to figure out how to specify a config option and where to place it. (0%)


metadata fast cache to make it usable on mid-large repos (0%)


Total votes: 238