Hi Mathieu,

> > If not, because those problems are ignored on the assumption it
> > wasn't real Perkeep-authored metadata after all, that would mean
> > genuine problems, e.g. caused by a bug, might go undetected at this
> > stage?
>
> Afair, when the index receives a blob, It checks whether it is a valid
> claim. If not, it is simply ignored. Then, in some measure, it is also
> checked whether the mutation introduced by the claim makes sense. If
> not, it is ignored.  Does that answer your question?

Yes thanks.  I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed an alternative to the
two choices I could see given blobs have no `internal metadata' bit.

> For example, the blobpacked implementation stores blobs pretty much
> like in a zip file. So I can imagine compression could be enabled for
> these.
...
> > Lastly, https://perkeep.org could benefit from having an up to date
> > `here's some of the things you could use it for' on the front page.
> > I can find https://perkeep.org/doc/uses but it's probably out of
> > date and doesn't touch on the tantalising interesting answers in the
> > Q&A at the end of the presentation.
>
> Sure. Contributions are welcome. :-)

:-)  But that's just it, I, and I suspect a lot of other passers-by,
don't know what's possible and missing.  Take `blobpacked' you mention
above.  Google's first page of results for `perkeep blobpacked' doesn't
describe what it is unless it's package documentation at
https://perkeep.org/pkg/blobserver/blobpacked/

A list of: use cases, importers, and backends, with a sentence briefly
describing each would give a much better first-glance overview of
whether a visitor should stick around.  Even links to
https://perkeep.org/pkg/blobserver/#pkg-subdirectories and
https://perkeep.org/pkg/importer/#pkg-subdirectories would help, but
they don't cover the use cases, e.g. small laptop as a local cache.

It seems Perkeep deserves to be better known and more widely used
amongst programmers, but the website is probably losing a lot of them at
the `top of the funnel'.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

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