Nepomuk in 4.13 and beyond

[Vishesh Handa]

On Tuesday 17 Dec 2013 12:22:26 Todd wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2013 6:36 PM, "Vishesh Handa" <me at vhanda.in> wrote:
> > > i’ll say it again here so that it is at least on record: i really
> 
> disagree
> 
> > > with renaming Nepomuk. call it Nepomuk 2 or whatever, but tossing aside
> > > name recognition and years of messaging is doing the promo teams a
> 
> massive
> 
> > > disservice.
> > > 
> > > i hope that Baloo remains a technology name well hidden from both users
> 
> and
> 
> > > developers.
> > 
> > It will remain hidden.
> 
> I am a bit confused by this. You say it will remain hidden, but the emails
> I am seeing are calling for the outright removal of Nepomuk api calls and
> replacing them with baloo API calls.  This does not seen very hidden from
> developers.
>

I meant that it will remain "hidden" to the users. Not developers.

> 
> Further, you talk about disabling Nepomuk in system settings.  This does
> not seem very hidden from users.
> 
> So, although I cannot speak for him, I am not sure Aaron's branding
> concerns are being addressed.
> 
> Now if this was keeping the Nepomuk namespace and billing baloo as a
> replacement for virtuoso, then I could see this as being hidden, even with
> substantial changes in how the APIs actually work.  But not when both APIs
> and user settings are being renamed.
> 

The User settings are still called "Desktop Search". In fact the KCM is a near 
duplicate of the Nepomuk one.

The Nepomuk API was heavily based around RDF. Moving away from RDF meant 
redesigning the APIs.

> If any news site catches wind of this, I don't see how they could present
> it as anything other than an outright abandonment of Nepomuk, and once that
> view gets spread around the web no amount of branding later will change it.


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Vishesh Handa