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
