Hi!

First, I present myself: I'= m a journalist student here in Barcelona, and I've collaborated several= times with Alex and Aleix doing coverages about Blue Systems and KDE event= s in Spain (Akademy-es). Aleix told me about Baloo, and tomorrow I'll b= e in the office interviewing Vishesh.
Maybe that piece can fit in the planned article. Please tell me what you th= ink.

Following the topic, as a normal user I support the = idea of Baloo as a different product than Nepomuk. Vishesh told me about th= e great improvements in speed and cpu usage, and Nepomuk has a not-so-good = reputation, so it makes sense to mark Baloo as something different.

Regards,

Mart=EDn Gonz=E1lez

2014/1/20 = =C0lex Fiestas <afiestas@kde.org>

We were discussing this in the office and Vi= shesh is forcing me to send my
thoughts to the list... so here I come.

By an undetermined but big amount of users Nepomuk is considered a failure = and
it hasn't been until 4.10 (Vishesh words, not mine) that Nepomuk has be= en
usable, meaning that it's been 1 year since some of our users are enjoy= ing it
(as long as they don't use it together with akonadi) in contrast to the= 4.5
years it has been unusable.

If we announce that Baloo is a continuation of Nepomuk all the users that h= ave
not tried Nepomuk in the last year will apply the prejudices they acquired<= br> during the first years of Nepomuk, resulting in them potentially not trying=
Baloo.

Also, I personally think that publicly admitting failure while it might be<= br> negative it also bring us the opportunity of publicly amending our mistake<= br> (putting Nepomuk too early) and our way of amending the mistake is Baloo.
So, put it short I believe announcing Baloo as a "New start" has = more short
and long term benefits.

Also, once the first announcement is done we should not have to mention Bal= oo
anymore since the idea is that Baloo will blend into the system in such a w= ay
that users won't be able to know that they are even using it, which mak= es me
wonder if we need to announce Baloo at all. Desktop Search is a term I don&= #39;t
like either since Baloo is not about searching.

Cheers !

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Mart=EDn Gonz=E1lez
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