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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Article about Baloo
From:       Vishesh Handa <me () vhanda ! in>
Date:       2014-01-17 18:08:57
Message-ID: 2978667.LyMxZT6kdi () vlap
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On Friday 17 January 2014 09:19:40 Carl Symons wrote:
> 
> Hello Vishesh,
> 
> Yes, there should definitely be a Dot article about this...all of the
> Semantic Desktop components have been in the news for a long time. Your
> efforts on Baloo should be publicized as well.
> 

Meh. I don't care about publicizing my efforts. I may contribute the most 
right now, but there are other contributors as well. It would not be \
correct  to single out any one person.

> I can't work on this for the next few days. I will, after that.
> 
> What do you think the timing should be? Is there some event/release that
> will be notable? Has Baloo already been included in any of the recent
> releases?

It has never been released so far.

There are no dates that I know of. Let's get this out as soon as possible.

> 
> Jos already provided some ideas about how to present Baloo.
> 
> Whether Dot or blogpost? Both. The Dot article will have less detail
> than you can provide on your blog. And the Dot article can point to your
> blog for people who want more information.
> 

I'm not too sure what I'm going to write as a blog post.
 
> In addition to the storylines you are developing on the etherpad, it
> would be good to write something about KDE developers listening to
> users. Nepomuk (and of course its various related functions) has been
> the subject of many complaints. It would be good to hear your views on
> this...did this enter into your Baloo thinking?
> 

Quite a bit. Too much maybe.

When developing Nepomuk, we concentrated on hypothetical usecases from a 
developer's point of view, and build Nepomuk around developers. In fact \
untill  2011, the Nepomuk bug tracker was barely looked at.

With Baloo, our current APIs have been kept to a bare minimum. We've just \
been  focusing on making sure that the user experience is good, cause at \
the end of  the day that's all that matters.

Chosing one of the main storage mediums (Xapian) was also directly impacted \
 from virtuoso. I did not want another black box where one has no idea what \
is  going on and I get complaints that virtuoso is taking 169GB of storage \
(Yes,  that actually happened). Xapian is C++ code, has a healthy open \
source  community and is easy to modify.

> Good work on Baloo; good work on informing people about what Baloo is
> about. Thank you.
> 
> Carl


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