Things have been relatively quiet on git-annex this week. I've been distracted with other projects. But, a library that I developed for propellor to help with concurrent console output has been rapidly developing into a kind of tiling region manager for the console, which may be just the thing git-annex needs on the concurrent download progress display front.
After seeing it could go that way, and working on it around the clock to add features git-annex will need, here's a teaser of its abilities.
Probably coming soonish to a git-annex -J
near you!