The shared-desktop-ontologies mess

[John Tapsell]

2009/11/26 Sebastian Trueg <trueg at kde.org>:
> Dear KDE,
>
> I want to apologize for the mess I made in kdelibs yesterday evening. I
> can understand that you are frustrated especially with the beta1 tagging.
>
> Let me explain the whole idea of the shared-desktop-ontologies package:
> In Nepomuk as in projects like Tracker and Strigi we need the ontologies
> to describe our data and to create user interfaces. This only makes
> sense if we use the same ontologies so that the data we create is
> compatible. We have been struggling to create this package for a long
> time. Putting it off even longer increases the possibility of ontology
> forking and incompatible data even more. On a more practical note
> without this package we need copies of the ontologies in several modules
> like kdebase or kdepim for example.
>
> Now if the big part of you think this was too bold a move and should be
> reverted - I can understand that. In that case we have two possibilites:
> 1. put the ontologies in kdelibs (maybe even as a fallback in case the
> shared-desktop-ontologies are not installed)

Are we talking about a few 50KB files here, or a 30MB pack?

John