Am Montag 20 Juni 2011, 12.12:28 schrieb Paweł Paprota: > Hello, Morning Pawel
> I've been digging into the Nepomuk project for the last two weeks. I > started with the idea of using Nepomuk as a basis for a media library > component - kind of a semantic representation of user's movies/TV shows, > music etc. Quite similar to what XBMC project is doing but with Nepomuk > underneath and KDE (possibly Dolphin?) as a user facing UI. Sounds very interesting. > However, right now I feel like this work should be postponed because of > the problems I'm having with the project itself. For example right now > Nepomuk is not able to index my home directory. One of the causes is: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276056 > > Sometimes nepomukindexer crashes (I have a core dump indicating there is > an assertion failure in Strigi) and indexing hangs. Also I had to > exclude *.pdf from being indexed because of: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274895 > > I see a lot of open crash level reports in Bugzilla. I don't feel I > should proceed with adding new functionality (media library) before > stability issues are somehow resolved and there is a regression test > suite for this kind of issues. Thx for filing the bug reports. > I thought about preparing a continuous integration environment for > Nepomuk so crash/load/unit tests could be run constantly or at least > after each commit. This is a normal thing for me to do in commercial > projects. Especially with this kind of component there should be stress > tests running all the time - otherwise it's the users who will encounter > crashes/hangs etc. and indeed they do as is represented by state of > Bugzilla reports. > > Sadly I've just cancelled my Linode account few weeks ago because I > haven't had the time to use my virtual machines - otherwise we could use > my account to launch CI server and run tests there. > > However, I'm sure the infrastructure can be set up other ways, in the > end I could simply create (and pay...) for new Linode account. > > First I would like to know your opinion about what I should do right now > because I am torn. In my commercial projects I can't stand it when there > are open bugs at the level above major, especially crashers and > blockers. I would love to be able to further familiarize myself with > Nepomuk by triaging existing bugs and trying to track down, reproduce > and test crash/blocking bugs. > > In the meantime I could start writing about media library ideas on my > blog so that KDE usability folks can get involved as well. > > What do you think? I'm currently not a developer for Nepomuk but I think it would be great if you could invest time in fixing bugs and setting up a testing framework. I'm sure vhanda or trueg will comment on your mail soon. And I'm eager to read your blog about the media library. thx Mario _______________________________________________ Nepomuk mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk
