Everyone seems to be blogging about it, so I thought I’d join the crowd.
I’ve already been to some talks on Hildon, Xul, Telepathy, memory usage, accessibility and collaborative document editing. There has been a mixed amount of interestingness throughout the talks, but generally it’s great!
Tomorrow starts the core schedule and there are some great talks planned, including lots of Maemo/embedded ones.
And just when he thought he was in the clear…
Last weekend was Lugradio Live. It wasn’t exactly the greatest of events ever, but was satisfactory! The Debian stand was a little quiet as we had nothing to sell, and we only had a laptop and TFT on the table. I don’t think many knew what we were exhibiting. Although, I doubt LRL is really the place for a Debian stand.
However, the main purpose of my presence was to meet up with fellow Bongoers. It was an interesting time and was nice to meet the others. Alex has written a report about it.
To prove that I was there, I’ve found a photo on flickr. Although, even before I could blog about the event, this photo has been vandalised.
GUADEC starts on Sunday. Should be good! I’ve noticed a number of interesting talks there, mainly about Hildon/Maemo.
New Debian and Ubuntu packages for the 0.2.0 release. Here is the changelog entry:
bongoproject (0.2.0-2) experimental; urgency=low
* Added ldap-utils to bongoproject depends.
* Updated description in init script.
* Added slapd to bongoproject depends.
* Corrected s/Pache/Apache/ typo in README.Debian.
* Corrected s/varius/various/ typo in bongoproject-data long description.
* Added spamassassin and clamav-daemon to bongoproject recommends.
* Corrected s/STANDALONE_OPTS/RUN_STANDALONE_OPTS/ in init script, and
also its reference in README.Debian.
* Correct reference to /etc/default/bongo in README.Debian.
* Changed small path issue to make it more flexible with locales.
* Created bongoproject-tools package which contains the CLI apps.
* Added patch sqlite-3.3.17.diff to enable Bongo to work with SQLite >=
3.3.17. This was fixed in r92 upstream.
* Added patch smtpd-rset.diff to enable proper behaviour of RSET command
in SMTPD. This was fixed in r94 upstream.
* Added patch hawkeye-apache.diff to enable Hawkeye to work with Apache2. This
was fixed in r123 upstream.
* Added patch apache-config.diff to enable the output of a nice working
Apache2 config file.
* Added the Apache2 config file to bongoproject-web.examples.
* Updated instructions in README.Debian.
-- Jonny Lamb Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:29:41 +0100
Details on their installation can be found on either the Installation/Debian or Installation/Ubuntu pages of the wiki.
Right, exams are now over so I have more time to concentrate on other things.
I have a list of things I’d like to do over the summer. I won’t go into them as I don’t want to be tied to anything in particular, but it includes numerous Bongo enhancements, other SynCE stuff, finally some maemo developing, and also some Debian-specific stuff.
I’ll blog about any specific developments in the future though.
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!
I just wrote this little introductory guide to packaging using git-buildpackage. I’m still rather a rookie in both Git and git-buildpackage, so I hope it’s correct!
This isn’t going to be particularly interesting unless it is being read on Planet Bongo I suspect!
I got a second quote on the Bongo polos today. I won’t go into the actual prices (ping me on #bongo if you really want them), but it is a lot cheaper than the first quote.
I have one more supplier to go to and I suspect I can get it even cheaper, but a question has been raised for people wanting them:
- 100 per cent cotton, or a polyester and cotton mix?
So please let me know what you want by recording it on on the wiki page. You can still sign up to get a polo now.
I hope I’ve remembered everything.
Update: Forgot to mentian a very crucial point — 100 per cent cotton are roughly 5GBP more expensive!
Update: I must have been asleep when I wrote the last update — 100 per cent cotton are more expensive, not cheaper — arrgh!
There are a number of advances that SynCE has undertaken, and more to come!
Done:
- New release (obviously)
- New logo
- Repository clean-up: I spent a while today moving lots of things round, creating new branches, and deleting a lot! It is much more accessible now. This took quite a few commits, and as a result, SynCE and myself got on the 9th most active project, and 8th most active author respectively, of the day, on cia.vc!
- Debian packages of Subversion versions
- Bug tracker clean-up
Coming soon:
- New website: The current wiki is straining and is becoming more complex I believe. The new website, although still a wiki, will have a slightly different purpose, as explained in the next point.
- New documentation in docbook form: Instead of putting installation instructions in the wiki, a docbook documentation module will be set-up. This is good because the source will be in svn and all the different formats (HTML, PDF, RTF, TXT…) can be built nightly. It will also be much cleaner than in a wiki, and another great advantage is that one can read it off-line. I will create a very easy-to-follow guide for people to contribute to this documentation though.
- New release into Debian: voc has agreed to sponsor release packages into Debian. Now that 0.10.0 is out, I can start working on these.
A new version of SynCE is finally out, after roughly a years wait!
This is the first version that supports Windows Mobile 5 out of the box!
Debian packages will be provided soon, and should be uploaded into Debian soon too.
