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Subject: Re: Moving Baloo and Baloo-widgets into KDE SC
From: Mario Fux KDE ML <kde-ml () unormal ! org>
Date: 2014-01-10 10:02:22
Message-ID: 201401101102.22982.kde-ml () unormal ! org
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Am Donnerstag, 09. Januar 2014, 23.26:01 schrieb Àlex Fiestas:
Morning Alex
> On Thursday 09 January 2014 21:52:52 Christoph Feck wrote:
> > But if the above scenario does not work, we should probably not
> > introduce Baloo for KDE SC 4.x.
>
> I have to disagree here.
And I'm probably disagree with you but let me explain below.
> We can't keep playing this conservative when we have things that are in the
> Nepomuk situation. If it is the most hated piece of software we have is not
> by chance.
>
> If the breakage is minimal (which I know it is, but I will let vHanda reply
> to that) I vote to replace it even if we make a bit worse the experience
> using some weird application that nobody has heard of.
The release schedule for 4.13 is really short (4 month). With the feature
freeze in approx. 1.5 months, see [1].
As 4.13 will be one of our last release in the 4 era I think we should be
quite sure that we don't break anything or even more to be 110% sure to have
fallbacks, migration, APIs for Nepomuk apps to access Baloo data etc.
And even though I know that Vishesh is doing a great and a hell of a job I'm
not too sure if one single person can manage all of this (not just the
implementation but I think it needs a lot of testing as well).
IIRC it's still not clear for all the current Nepomuk apps if they work after
4.13. Let's try to list them again.
- Amarok (got Nepomuk support with 2.7, will it work after 4.13?
- Digikam (gets new Nepomuk with 4.0.0 due in May or so. Will it work)?
- Dolphin
- Gwenview
- Conquiere
- KPhotoalbum
- Kamoso (seems so be ready in time)
- Kdenlive (out of the most popular KDE apps, with some man power problems
atm, ok, but nonetheless)
- Nepomuk-webminer and Nepomuktvnamer
- Plasma Active/Plasma mobile with Share-Like-Connect
And another question. Will people who used Nepomuk extensively lose data? I
know that Nepomuk was one of the most hated software, but there were and are
people who like(d) and love(d) it.
So in conclusion I think that a change of Nepomuk to Baloo in 4.x without a
100% (very very well tested!) migration plan and testing is a no-go (from my
side, just me). I've the strong feeling that such big changes are for
something like kf5 and a port of the apps to kf5.
> Ps: Some distros even disable Nepomuk by default... Really with this we are
> going to annoying almost nobody.
Best regards
Mario
[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.13_Release_Schedule
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