[Kde-pim] Marketing blocker collection, DEADLINE: 2013-03-10

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2013-03-07, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:01:43 AM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > I was sticking to the common notion that akonadi's DB is just a cache.
> > 
> > Which, as Volker has pointed out twice in this thread, is a common
> > misconception. A classic "has a" versus "is a" confusion.
> 
> But this is actually what they have been told for years now, that akonadi
> is just a cache.

Well, yes, as opposed to be a storage. Item data is not stored in the Akonadi 
DB, small parts can be cached there, or kept until they could be written back 
(offline mode).

Maybe it would have been better to just ignore all the trolls who thought they 
knew better but at the time it seemed possible to educate at least interested 
users that data was still stored on servers or locally in open formats.

I think it wasn't clear that even those users would then simplify everything 
down to just that bit of information and forget every other information 
available.

We will just have to live with the fact that open development has the 
disadvantage of bystanders commenting on things they neither understand nor 
see the full picture of.

Unfortunate that the situation has deteriorated like this.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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