limitations, or add locking and make it detect when it was interrupted
and re-run the sim from the start to resume.
+## completed items for September's work on proving behavior of preferred content
+
+* Static analysis to detect "not present", "not balanced", and similar
+ unstable preferred content expressions and avoid problems with them.
+* Implemented `git-annex sim` command.
+* Simulated a variety of repository networks, and random preferred content
+ expressions, checking that a stable state is always reached.
+* Fix bug that prevented anything being stored in an empty
+ repository whose preferred content expression uses sizebalanced.
+ (Identified via `git-annex sim`)
+
## items deferred until later for balanced preferred content and maxsize tracking
* The assistant is using NoLiveUpdate, but it should be posssible to plumb