From kde-promo Fri Jan 17 19:30:07 2014 From: Jos Poortvliet Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:30:07 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Article about Baloo Message-Id: <3385594.BemMpubbRN () linux-606j> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=138998679710733 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============2524771233669027046==" --===============2524771233669027046== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5412140.WTv6bWG3Gu"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --nextPart5412140.WTv6bWG3Gu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday 17 January 2014 19:08:57 Vishesh Handa wrote: > 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. Credit where it is due is healthy. > > 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. I would like to suggest to publish this about two weeks before the release. It will create a bit of a splash (good) and that can then carry over in the release (even better). > > 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. Write a blog post about porting apps to Baloo, I would say. You have to write that down anyway for the http://community.kde.org/Baloo page :D > > 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. And has a good reputation. Points for picking that, it will be an easy sell ;-) Good suggestion from Carl to put some focus on this. I will go in the etherpad and see if I can help out a bit. But I think we're all pretty much on the same page in how to communicate this already - after all, it's not the first time we talk, I remember you coming to me at a PIM sprint more than a year ago :D > > Good work on Baloo; good work on informing people about what Baloo is > > about. Thank you. Indeed. Hugs, J > > Carl > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. > > Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set > digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. --nextPart5412140.WTv6bWG3Gu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlLZhL8ACgkQ+wgQ1AD35iyBjwCfV43qXu4cnsxH8qOCrygWrlVX zrgAoKkjna51+SEEm9aaFL2UwqViDSh9 =XZE8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5412140.WTv6bWG3Gu-- --===============2524771233669027046== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. --===============2524771233669027046==--