Re: Article about Baloo

On Tuesday 18 February 2014 21:09:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2014 15:24:32 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 February 2014 15:51:50 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 14:20:57 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 18 February 2014 14:54:04 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday 18 February 2014 14:30:13 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > Lets not quibble on semantics.
> > :
> > :-D to getting 'semantics' into the email. Ok, let's leave that point
> > :
> > :there.:
> > > Nepomuk undeniably has visibility. Keeping continuity in that would
> > > have
> > > made a number of things rather more simple going forward.
> > > 
> > > > In this particular case, there are some major things changing - it's
> > > > a
> > > > big
> > > > switch that might leave some applications currently needing Nepomuk.
> > > > I'm
> > > > not
> > > 
> > > Given that Nepomuk is being left behind by the developers who were
> > > working
> > > on it, this seems inadvisable. As yet another cost in the renaming
> > > exercise, we now have developers who will more likely feel the need to
> > > spend time examining the change and whether to adopt or not rather than
> > > simply accepting it as the next step in this technology’s life cycle.
> > > 
> > > > sure it can be done completely unannounced, with no public change (in
> > > > name/terminology).
> > > 
> > > It should be announced; it’s the change in naming and terminology that
> > > is
> > > at issue.
> > 
> > Ok, I misunderstood you.
> > 
> > > > It could be done perhaps with a Nepomuk v1 versus
> > > > Nepomuk v2 kind of distinction (hey, maybe that would have been
> > > > better). I
> > > 
> > > That’s actually what I suggested previously.
> > > 
> > > > too think it's late for that now - particularly as the name Baloo is
> > > > out
> > > > there (from use on the mailing list, apparently) - but I'm willing to
> > > > be
> > > > convinced.
> > > 
> > > I’m not sure it is too late; Baloo could be positioned as the ‘backend’
> > > for Nepomuk storage, in much the same way as strigi was replaced with a
> > > Nepomuk- specific solution, and Nepomuk 2 could be ‘born’.
> > 
> > That would be rather easy to do, within the existing draft article. It
> > would be little more than replacing 'Nepomuk' in many places with
> > 'Nepomuk's existing storage backend'.
> > 
> > The one sticking point is the part of the article where we talk about
> > migration of data and the possibility (not advised) of running both
> > systems, but that can be dealt with in a similar way, particularly if
> > migration is automated
> > 
> > In short, the more I think about it (and think about counter arguments)
> > I'm coming round to your point of view. Except that I don't think
> > mentioning version 1 vs version 2 (for example) makes sense, because
> > 'Nepomuk' here is not so much the software as the concept/capability for
> > semantic search etc, as it was in the original research project -
> > instead talk of backends seems cleaner.
> > 
> > In that case, the title might be:
> > "KDE Unveils Next Generation Semantic Search Backend"
> > 
> > I'd still be inclined to mention Baloo by name in the article, but
> > position as "the new backend to semantic search, replacing Nepomuk's
> > existing backend".
> > 
> > Jos, Carl, others - what are your thoughts?
> 
> To me, it sounds like a 'have your cake and eat it too' solution. I always
> like those. The article already mentions that the API's and widgets are
> simply taken from Nepomuk. For application developers and many users they
> are the FACE of Nepomuk. So, we kept Nepomuk. The backend is changed -
> from Virtuoso to an abstraction layer called Baloo.
> 
> Sounds like good spin if you ask me ;-)

If there are no strong objections to this and if Vishesh likes it, we could 
move with this. As I'll meet Vishes at conf.kde.in, perhaps I can sit down 
with him there, hack this proposal in the text and release the article next 
Monday...


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