Looking at these instructions for SynCE just sickens me. I really want to strongly suggest one doesn't follow the instructions, but not only does it look as if I'm too late, it also highlights how horrible the SynCE documentation is. Currently the new docs are stored in a less-than-finished docbook file in Subversion: http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/synce/trunk/synce-docs/. If you're good with Docbook and want to help, email me.

On other SynCE notes, the new site is ready, but the docs are preventing me using the site.

Debian BBQ tomorrow. Lack of laptop means lack of general communication.

Bongo has just made it into Debian Experimental, as shown on its packages.debian.org page.

This is good because it's made it through the NEW queue, and so any subsequent version will be uploaded into Debian a lot quicker. To install this straight from Debian, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: (Note: You must be running the unstable distribution)

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main

The version in the archive is 0.2.0-3. This has not been put into my repository on my site yet. Here is the changelog entry:

bongoproject (0.2.0-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Initial release into Debian (Closes: #419476)
  * Changed ${Source-Version} to ${binary:Version} and made deps binNMU
    compatible.
  * Wrapped deps and build-deps.
  * Added debug package bongoproject-dbg.
  * Added python dependency to bongoproject-tools.
  * Updated short descriptions.
  * Updated copyright file.
  * Added README.Package file to explain some of the library importing
    stuff.
  * Added patch remove-bongo-external.diff to remove the dependency on
    bongo.external python libraries.
  * Added python-vobject, python-simplejson and python-dateutil to
    python-bongoproject Depends.
  * Added python-simpletal to bongoproject-web Depends.
  * Updated copyright to use new FSF address.

 -- Jonny Lamb   Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:08:57 +0100

Hopefully in the near future I should create some packages for Ubuntu and Debian (etch) for 0.2.0-3, although as you can see from the changelog entry, there's no real feature difference. Also should get my git repository for package management up soon, when I get my new server. Bear with me.

P.S. If you are reading this in a feed reader, or through the planet, then visit my site and check out my new theme. It's nice.

I haven't blogged in a little while, so I thought I'd break the trend.

Recently I started adding CalDAV support into Bongo. This is actually progressing very well. I'm working on the sundial branch in Subversion. If you want to try it out, then you can checkout using:

svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/bongo/branches/sundial/

And then install how one normally would from source. To try out the CalDAV support, you must be running standalone -- Apache will simply not work at the moment. Point your client at:

http://server:port/dav/username/calendar/

You should be asked for username and password, but the auth system is a little broken at the moment. It is next on my list of things to do with Sundial, and hopefully I'll commit a fix for that tonight, but I might not have time..

Remember that this is three or four days old and not only will it have bugs, but if you glance at the code, there are many TODOs floating around, so this is very alpha quality software. With respect to CalDAV client support, I've done most of the testing on Mozilla Sunbird and in my opinion that has the best CalDAV support, but Evolution should work (it did last night)! Come find me on IRC if you have any questions.