PIM is not good. Would adding an extra RC help?

[Daniel Vrátil]

Hi Albert,

On Saturday 05 of April 2014 16:40:24 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> ** Please CC me and r-t list, i'm not subscribed to pim list. **
> 
> Hello guys, as I hope you all know this Wednesday we are supposed to tag the
> final release for 4.13.
> 
> I am sending this email to ask for opinions on the value of adding an extra
> RC and delaying the 4.13.0 release for at least a week.
> 
> I'm going to explain why I'd like this to happen.
> 
> Since the update to 4.13 Beta I've been having lots of CPU and I/O problems
> in pim related stuff, most notably akonadi_baloo_indexer,
> akonadi_maildir_resource & friends.
> 
> On every release i've complained on IRC to be told "oh yes, we just fixed
> this thing and will be available on the next release".
> 
> But here I am, using 4.13 RC and with even KMail closed
> mysqld+akonadiserver+akonadi_maildir_resource are using 100% of one of my
> CPU cores and writing/reading around 10MB/s to my slow disks.
> 
> I find this unacceptable.
> 
> So yesterday I complained again on IRC, and was told again "oh yes, we just
> fixed this thing and will be available on the next release".
>
> Just that this is the last bullet we have for fixing stuff, if it turns out
> it's like all the previous 3 times i've been told that sentence, we'll end
> up with a bad 4.13 pim release, and even it may not linked to it (or it
> may, i have no clue), people will blame Baloo, and developers will get sad
> and will be less motivated to be on stuff and bugs will be fixed more
> slowly, you know that, down spiral of sadness for everyone.
> 
> So I am going to ask:
>  * Are you guys really sure this problem is fixed with the current git code?
> If so please tell me the repos I have to recompile and I will try seeing if
> it fixes my problems

So you complain about this maildir problem and when I told you the problem was 
fixed after Akonadi 1.12 was released, you didn't even go and try the fixes, 
yet you still complain that you have a problem .... ?

Please run Akonadi from latest .12 branch. If the problem is gone, there's no 
need to delay any release. If you still have the problem, I'm 99% sure it's a 
problem in Akonadi server and can be fixed in couple days before I do 1.12.1 
release which we need to anyway in order to ship top-notch KDE PIM experience 
in 4.13.  If everything is fine on your side, I'll do 1.12.1 on Monday.

Cheers,
Dan


>  * Do you guys think this is just my problem and I can be just ignored? I
> can take that too, if you feel like everybody is using kmail 4.13 without
> any problems and i'm just an outlier with problems I am willing to accept
> that I'm unlucky and do the release as planned.
>  * Do you guys think adding an extra RC would help?
> 
> Of course you know where I am if you need me compiling something or giving
> you extra information about my setup.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> P.S: No, I haven't opened a bug, the reason is that every time i complained
> i've been told that it had already been fixed, so it seemed not necessary.
> 
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