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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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