Mercurial has a way for users to discover each other and do ad-hoc patch sharing
on LANs. As I understand it, their implementation uses bonjour and a builtin
tiny webserver. We don't necessarily need to use bonjour and webserver, but
darcs should consider having a mechanism for this sort of peer to peer patch
sharing. This would be a particularly good selling point for people at code
sprints and hackathons where infrastructure tends to be ad-hoc.
Marking the initial status to "waiting-for" as we need a volunteer to take this
high level spec to a more concrete spec and begin the implementation.
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