On Tuesday 17 Dec 2013 12:22:26 Todd wrote: > On Dec 12, 2013 6:36 PM, "Vishesh Handa" <m...@vhanda.in> wrote: > > > i’ll say it again here so that it is at least on record: i really > > disagree > > > > with renaming Nepomuk. call it Nepomuk 2 or whatever, but tossing aside > > > name recognition and years of messaging is doing the promo teams a > > massive > > > > disservice. > > > > > > i hope that Baloo remains a technology name well hidden from both users > > and > > > > developers. > > > > It will remain hidden. > > I am a bit confused by this. You say it will remain hidden, but the emails > I am seeing are calling for the outright removal of Nepomuk api calls and > replacing them with baloo API calls. This does not seen very hidden from > developers. >
I meant that it will remain "hidden" to the users. Not developers. > > Further, you talk about disabling Nepomuk in system settings. This does > not seem very hidden from users. > > So, although I cannot speak for him, I am not sure Aaron's branding > concerns are being addressed. > > Now if this was keeping the Nepomuk namespace and billing baloo as a > replacement for virtuoso, then I could see this as being hidden, even with > substantial changes in how the APIs actually work. But not when both APIs > and user settings are being renamed. > The User settings are still called "Desktop Search". In fact the KCM is a near duplicate of the Nepomuk one. The Nepomuk API was heavily based around RDF. Moving away from RDF meant redesigning the APIs. > If any news site catches wind of this, I don't see how they could present > it as anything other than an outright abandonment of Nepomuk, and once that > view gets spread around the web no amount of branding later will change it. -- Vishesh Handa