Help proposal for Akregator

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 00:10:40 CEST Pierre wrote:
> Hi

Hi Pierre,

> 
> Those of you following IRC or git commits may have noticed I contributed a
> few patches to Akregator in the last days. I am an avid user of Akregator.
> My archives are more than 10 years old (who want to read back the
> announcement of Qt 4.4 TP 1 ?), over 700 000 articles… I initially proposed
> patches paving the way to have a SQL archive backend, because I don't feel
> safe having 2GB of files almost impossible to backup and unusable outside
> akregator. And thus I started digging in the code, fixing performance
> issues…
> And after some discussion with Laurent Montel, I would like to officialy
> offer my help maintaining Akregator. I can't promise I would be the best
> maintainer ever, not even an acceptable one (I've got other codebases and
> some other time intensive hobbies…), but I'm willing to help fix
> Akregator's bugs, implement a few features…

That's awesome, thanks for stepping up! We neglected Akregator a little in the 
past years, I'm happy to see it will get some love again.

> And if that's ok with you, I plan working on performance, memory usage, and
> on the SQL backend (it's in alpha-state, but working), to get rid of
> metakit and a huge amount of issues it comes with.

Are you planning to store the entire articles in the SQL database? I'm 
wondering how that's gonna scale with lots of large articles...


Cheers,
Dan



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