Re: kde-pim dev needed, for a sponsored open source effort, to remove akonadi

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15.03.2018, 17:31, "Pablo Sanchez" <[email protected]>:

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:23:05 -0700 (PDT), René J.v. Bertin wrote:

On Thursday March 15 2018 11:59:24 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
I don't know why you believe that there's 'extensive database
functionality' ... what does that mean? Can you quantify this point?

Nope, it's just an impression

^^^^^^^^^^

:)

based in part on the fact that there is apparently quite a bit that
can be optimised,

'quite a bit'? Can you quantify this or is it also an impression?

I'm not trying to be mean but I think it is important to use facts in
technical discussions.

Based on my experience with these types of problems, I don't think
there's much. I found an egregious issue. That's a good thing
because that means once it is resolved, it'll solve a lot of the
problems I've read about: fans going crazy, etc.

You don't think there is much? Really?

In the last 6 months:

- "Unable to start akonadi" randomly.

- Random crashes when trying to interact with kleopatra.

- Mail setup wizard completed without errors but no mail account is being added.

- Deleting a contact break carddav sync.

- Now carddav and caldav are both not syncing, and the agent show no errors.

- The second event with the same title in the same day not displayed with google calendar. [ happening right now ]

- Create an all-day event in korganizer and it won't be synced to google, but if you create it with web interface akonadi will sync it. [ happening right now ]

- Kmail columns set to minimal width, column size not being remembered, automatic alignment is available but only manual. [ happening right now ]

- Akregator suddenly lost all the feeds with no motivation, 3 times

- Notes randomly not displayed. [ happening right now ]

- Notes randomly being deleted.

- If you have 3 events which intersect at some point, the first event will be displayed twice as wide as it should and the right half of it will "blink". [ happening right now ]

- Notes folders randomly being hidden. [ happening right now ]

- All the notes was lost at some point.

- If you close kontact while being on the akregator section the next time you open it akregator will crash.

- kontact just randomly crashes sometimes (roughly 3 times a month).

- kalarm randomly creates akonadi_kalarm_resource_* agents each one of them is creating 6 000 calendar files (6000!) in it's ~/.local/share folder and eats up to 200 mb of RAM. [ happening right now ]

- so right now i have 13 kalarm agents totaling 85 000 calendar files with only one active daily alarm and only one expired alarm.

- all of these 13 agents have "status: Online, Broken" and "status message: unable to start" but my only active daily alarm is being started regularly in spite of this.

- Each time I power on my PC i should run "killall akonadi_kalarm_resource" before they kill my RAM

- I should run "killall akonadi_kalarm_resource" 3 times because the first 2 times I kill them they resurrect.

- Removing all the kalarm agents from akonadi console is not helping

I'm not even going to list all the minor glitches I'have seen.

You still don't think there is much?

in part by the fact that apparently no "simpler" db implementations
than sqlite3 can be used.

What multi-user database engine would you advocate? While conformance
to ACID[1] is not mandatory, it is nice to have.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
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