Jonny’s Blog

The Bongo Project reached its second milestone in its roadmap recently.

The release notes contain the complete list, but here are some details of what’s new in this release:

• the brand-new “hawkeye” web administration tool;
• antivirus and antispam are now supported;
• support for encrypted SMTP sessions.

I’ve been doing a few things with Bongo recently too:

• Debian packages — these have finally been finished for the new release, and are publicly available. Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

  deb http://jonnylamb.com/debian/bongo debian-etch/
  deb http://jonnylamb.com/debian/bongo ubuntu-feisty/

• Man pages — to shut Lintian up, I shoved some man pages upstream.
• Cleaning up import/ — I’m trying to get the imported libraries gone as although they’re convenient, they have reasons of why they’re not great. I’ve been creating a number of patches to try sort out this problem.
• Looking at libical — Although all the other libraries in import/ are rather generic (E.g. CLucene, cURL), the libical library is not. I suspect I will blog and post to bongo-devel about this later though, rather than now.
• Darter — I spoke to Alex about a lightweight Dragonfly some time ago, and I’ve started on it. It will be a non-javascript way to get your Bongo junk across the web. It is aimed at devices like mobile phones or, mobile internet browsers (E.g. Nokia Internet tablets). This will be called Darter. Thanks to Pat for this name. It is a smaller Dragonfly, and the name seems to point to speed too!