Last weekend we had a PIM developer sprint in Berlin, with the aim to give KMail a little boost. The sprint was hosted by KDAB and my employer (Kolab Systems) took care of my expenses, so there was nothing holding me from joining =)

While many concentrated on squashing KMail/Akonadi bugs I focused on yet another rewrite of the Akonadi-Nepomuk feeders, which are supposed to make the information stored in Akonadi available in Nepomuk.

Previously we had an agent for each mimetype, which made it difficult to control the resources which were used by the agents to index the data. To improve this situtation we decided on a plugin based architecture, where we can write plugins to index a certain mimetype, but the indexing is done by a single agent. This gives us a much better control of the used resources, so the indexing of the emails doesn’t bring down your whole system. It also allows us to index various items at different priorities. For instance the initial indexing of all your email (which can take rather long), has a lower priority than an item which you just changed. This is important so applications can rely on the feeder to bring changed items into nepomuk within reasonable time, so they are i.e. retrieved by fulltext search.

The first version already landed in master, but there are still some features of the old agent missing, such as the indexing of email attachments. However I think the new architecture is a real improvement over the old one and should give us a much better situation than before.

Just need to work out the last few kinks…

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