June 15th, 2009
Bongo Images and the 0.5 release
I have been working on the images for the 0.5 release of Bongo and I have now completed them.
They can be found here http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/bongo/latestRelease
There is a change however in how we will be implementing the images from now on.
I have decided that to make it easier on you guys and also to limit the number of hours I have to work on them I will create a version 1.0 of the images which I will not change for the foreseeable future.
What will now happen is that we will just update the packages that apply to Bongo and release them for consumption.
I have also decided that I will start using the built in features of the rPath rbuilder system to start developing changes or updates to the bongo packages in the -devel branch and then when I am happy that they are ready for general consumption I will promote them to -qa which is an image I will be running permanently I will make this image available to anyone who would want to help test the bleeding edge stuff from Bongo.
Once the -qa has been completed I will promote to the release branch which will be bongo.rpath.org@rpl:bongo-1.0.
This will automatically make the changes available to you guys and so we will become a rolling update project. So you will never have to re-install your server again unless you have to upgrade your hardware.
I hope you find it easier to use. We are now well on our way to making Bongo a great mail server.
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June 10th, 2009
I have been able to rework the Bongo images to make them work.
I would appreciate any testing that could be done as I do not have all the vm technologies to test.
So I hope you have fun .
Here is a link to the downloads
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June 3rd, 2009
Due to a server error where the images get built an error has crept in that make the images useless.
This error has been prevalent for some time and so it has caused the images to break.
I have therefore pulled the images and will try to fix the problem as soon as I can.
I will post again when things get better
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May 13th, 2009
Eiffel Tower
Originally uploaded by lhaig
This is a photo I took in Paris.
I only wish I had had a 300 mm lens it would have been much nicer
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May 13th, 2009
Cara’s Feet
Originally uploaded by lhaig
My little girls feet. She is so cute
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May 10th, 2009
Quite some time ago I blogged about my efforts to create a mono API for the bongo store protocol, I have unfortunately been quite busy with my personal life and also at work so this has been neglected.
I have again been working on this and at the moment I am stuck trying to get the COLLECTIONS command to work.
Alex sent me his php API code that he was working on to help me out but unfortunately I am just not experienced enough to work this one out. I really want to get this working as I think it will be a great boost to the project as it will open the project to other coders and perhaps we could see some interesting work.
To help move this forward I have booked myself a course with Learning tree on how to code wit c# for beginners. I have also taken their 3 course special so I can book myself 2 more coding courses if I actually start to understand better. If anyone is interested in helping me out with this I am open.
I am excited with what is happening in the project at the moment we are almost ready to release again after some testing.
I would like to say thank you to Steve-O (his Nick on IRC I don’t know his full name) he has been a great help testing the new release of Bongo and helping find some yet undiscovered bugs. Thanks Steve.
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March 4th, 2009
Bongo 0.4 Development Images.
As promised I have published the Bongo 0.4 development images. To the rPath site.
This release will be quite a big step as we are upgrading the images to the rPath Linux 2 version.
These are the development branch of the 0.4 bongo source I have included Spamassassin and clamav in this build so these option should now work in bongo as well.
Could you please test them and let me know if there are any issues. So we can fix them.
I know that this is a bit late but I want to be prepared for the release of 0.5 which should be soon.
WARNING!!!!!!!!
This release does not have a working Webfront end so if you use this upgrade at your peril.
Please backup your data before doing this upgrade.
As was pointed out to me I had not added the link to the downloads. HERE IS THE LINK
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February 22nd, 2009
For some time now I have been asked why I have not released the Bongo 0.4.0 packages to the Bongo rPath repo.
The reason I have given is that the webUI bits for Bongo have been broken in Bongo after some major work was done on the store area of the project. The other agents we have e.g. SMTP, IMAP, POP, ANTISPAM and ANTIVIRUS are all still performing very well and I use the code on a server at home running about 4 domains.
This work has improved the performance of the store and also fixed quite a few niggles that had crept in while we were removing old Novell code. We were going to focus on the web UI once we had a stable 0.4.0 version of the store. Things have developed quite a bit further and we are now close to a 0.5 release. This does not mean that we are going to have a working webUI for this release as the work that has gone on for the webUI will need revisiting. We have had discussions about what we want to do with the webUI and perhaps where we want to take it. It is not quite as simple as one would think.
The reason I am rambling on about this is that I want to now work towards releasing a version of the Bongo appliances that does not have a webUI installed. This WILL break any 0.3 install of Bongo so when I do release it. It will be on your head if you lose your webUI.
So my next few weeks will be aimed at getting 0.4 ready for roll-out.
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February 22nd, 2009
Monsoon 0.20 packaged.
I have eventually packaged the new version of monsoon for Foresight Linux. My apologies to Alan for taking so long. Life has a habit of taking over sometimes.
Well I have added the new meta tags that zodman’s new packagekit needs so it should have a short description about it.
Please test this version for me as I would love for it to become Foresight Linux’s default torrent client.
Thanks again to all the guys on the Foresight irc channel for the help when I get stuck while I build packages.
Have fun using a great tool.
As Zodman has pointed out I should add the command to install the package
so to install for testing please use - - -
sudo conary update monsoon=foresight.rpath.org@fl:2-devel
Tags: Foresight Linux
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February 21st, 2009
dsc00860.jpg
Originally uploaded by lhaig
My attempt at being artistic. I was walking outside after the snow this February and found this bush.
I think it make for quite a nice picture
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