Re: [Tracker] The Utopian idea, Tracker as it should be

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be> wrote:

On 17/09/2014 17:05, Martyn Russell wrote:

>> Nepomuk separate: Sharing the ontology with KDE desktop, without
>> GNOME's politics interfering of trying to dominate needlessly
>> the processes (which, whether GNOME people like this or not,
>> would imply that KDE simply wouldn't use it). Where this gets
>> hosted? FDO? nepomuk-desktop.org? Jesus, I don't care.
>
> I'm all for sharing, but our situation has always been slightly
> different, we have a lot of extensions and things which the
> original ontology doesn't have, so we can't strictly follow it
> anyway. I don't know how this will sit with the KDE folk if they
> want to use Tracker's ontology.

 Some thoughts about the ontology:

1) KDE is not using nepomuk anymore:

https://community.kde.org/Baloo#Baloo.2C_Nepomuk.2C_KDE_Platform_4_and_KF5

2) Previous attempts of sharing the ontology maintenance failed because of bizantine discussions for any change. It wasn't worthy when Tracker was the only serious (as shipping a product) user of them.

3) Moving the ontologies to their own repo still looks like a good idea, because there have been some tries to run tracker with custom ontologies. A different repo makes it clear that the ontology is not "hardcoded" in the store and can be customized "downstream".

 Small letter on #3: IIRC there are some "foundation" ontologies that are absolutely required to bootstrap the DB (rdf, dc...).

 Regards,

Ivan