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

[Vishesh Handa <me vhanda in>]

Hey guys

I thought I should chime in. I'm currently the maintainer of Baloo in KDE, and was the maintainer of the Nepomuk project in KDE.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be> wrote:

> 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".

Yes. I think we need to lead and allow certain extensions and changes.
Perhaps we should start with what Baloo and Nepomuk do agree on and
gradually grow it as industries and use-cases join?

We, in KDE, were quite fed up with the ontologies. With Baloo, we're no longer using any ontologies. The project simple aims to be a good search index for files. Baloo does not store any data and is just an index. The small amount of information that we need to store - user tags and ratings are stored in the xattr of the files.

The Nepomuk KDE project is pretty much dead.

I'll be happy to answer any further questions you have. 

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Vishesh Handa