European Wafaa

The time is near now for Lug Radio Live, and yes I've mentioned it already but I want to try and get the message across

I'm going up on Friday (6thJuly) and heading over to the pre-event drinkie poos at the HogsHead pub. If you're going to be there let me know, I might buy you a drink The imprtant part is that you're at the event itself, and come over to the BoF session on Sunday (8thJuly) at 1500. If anyone has any topic in particular they would like covered let us know.

For those that haven't had a play with Bongo yet (shame on you!), I will have bongo running on one of my laptops so you can have a look and feel the love that is the might bongo. Oh one request for the community out there - any chance of getting someone to compose a Bongo Theme tune (I don't want to use the UmBongo tune)? All will become clear as to why in a short while!

The guys and gals over at openSUSE have been beavering away at enhancing a tool that is invaluable to the Bongo Project and many many others - the openSUSE Build Service (OBS for short). One of those enhancements is enabling statistics so packagers can see if the sweat and tears has been worth it.

So to give you a general feel for how busy the OBS is (here comes the science bit):

Number of build hosts = 150
Number of projects = 702
Number of repositories = 2235
Number of packages = 19377
Number of users = 658

Remember these numbers keep growing

How does this relate to Bongo? Well I did a search for our lovely package and for my lovely project (home:FunkyPenguin) and ......:

My project is rated as 68th most active
Bongo-UNSTABLE is the 101st most active package
Bongo (Official release) has been downloaded 2578 times

Holy smokes Drum Beaters, over two and a half thousand downloads!!!! and that is just for the RPMs and a couple will have used the DEBs there, not to mention how many people have used Jonny's DEBs and built from source.

I would just like to say "Rock on Tommy" to all the hackers out there - Alex Hudson, Jonny Lamb, Alex Hixon, Albert Lee, Lance Haig, Chris Lamb, Daniel Ostrow and anyone else I've forgotten - you guys are doing a sterling job, and to the whole Bongoverse for being such a super community.

For those that would prefer to use source rather than packages I have a fairly comprehensive collection of tarballs that I use for building the packages on the OBS, these can be found here. The things to note with these tarballs are:

From svn49 to svn121 all import libraries were used apart from curl
From svn126 to svn224 clucene and libical import libraries used
From svn225 to present only libical import libraries used.

As always if you have any questions/comments to make then please let me know.

This is a tip for people that want to upgrade versions (why wouldn't you?! ) It applies to all, so that means anyone that uses the RPMs, DEBs, e-builds or good old fashioned source and anything in between. For now you need to follow these steps, they will most likely change in the future but until then:

If you know a new version of Bongo has been released, before you install it shut Bongo down with:

bongo-manager -s

Install the new release and then before re-starting Bongo you need to splash a bit of water on Bongo's face to refresh it:

bongo-config install

Once that returns all successful, you can start Bongo:

bongo-manager -d

Failure to do this can bork your Bongo system, and lead to data loss. So do yourself a favour and don't give me the chance of saying "Told You So!"

Happy Bongoing

EDIT: I forgot to mention that if you are running Bongo in cahoots with Apache, you will need to restart the apache service

Well there is a chance that I could get slapped with an ASBO but who cares, this is the 21st Century and it's all about love (or something like that). The Bongo Project is no different, and as such is well and truly plugged into all this social networking/web2.0 lala tinky winky goodness. So where are we you may (probably not) be wondering? Well we're right here on:

Frappr / Facebook / Mugshot / Last.fm / Flickr

Please join in, and be part of the social upheaval that is running rampant!