Jean-Luc Makiola
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Three gaps in the Renovate setup, all about having enough in front of you at review time. ### Age reads UNKNOWN `config:recommended` already brings in `mergeConfidence:age-confidence-badges`, so the Age column existed — it just rendered grey. Fetching the badge SVGs from `developer.mend.io` directly shows why: Mend's index covers Maven Central but has nothing for Google's Maven repo, so every androidx/compose coordinate is blank. No token changes it; the JSON API behind the badges answers 401 for everyone. | coordinate | registry | age badge | | --- | --- | --- | | `androidx.compose:compose-bom` | Google Maven | UNKNOWN | | `androidx.core:core-ktx` | Google Maven | UNKNOWN | | `com.google.truth:truth` | Maven Central | 2y | | `org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib` | Maven Central | 1y (confidence high, passing 99%) | Age is now computed from `newVersionAgeInDays`, which Renovate derives itself to evaluate `minimumReleaseAge` — Google Maven serves `last-modified` on its POMs, so it's populated where Mend is blank, and the number agrees with the tiers it's read against. Mend keeps the Confidence column, which still resolves for the Maven Central half (Kotlin, Gradle, AGP, the test stack). ### Empty release notes We run against Gitea, but the packages are *released* on GitHub, so changelog lookups were going out unauthenticated against a 60/h limit. `RENOVATE_GITHUB_COM_TOKEN` lifts that. **Needs a secret before it does anything:** a github.com PAT with **no scopes ticked**, added as repo secret `GITHUB_COM_TOKEN`. Until then the var resolves empty, which is exactly today's behaviour. ### Nothing expressed how settled a release is Cooling-off scaled by blast radius: 30 days major, 20 minor, 10 patch/digest. Deliberately advisory. Renovate's default `internalChecksFilter: strict` would suppress the PR outright until the version aged in; `none` opens it at the highest version immediately, so merging ahead of the window stays a decision rather than a wait. A too-young release still gets a yellow `renovate/stability-days` check — `setStability` computes that from `minimumReleaseAge` + `releaseTimestamp` independently of the filter — and with `automerge: false` nothing acts on it. ### Notes Validated with `renovate-config-validator` against the pinned 43.232.0. Config is read from the default branch, so the open bump PRs keep their current tables until the next run after this merges. Reviewed-on: #98
Calendula
A modern Material 3 Expressive calendar for Android.
Reads, writes, and reminds — on top of the system calendar, with zero network access.
Calendula is named after the flower whose name — like the word calendar —
comes from the Latin kalendae, the first day of the month. It lives
entirely on top of Android's CalendarContract: any calendar synced to your
device (CalDAV via DAVx5, Google, local, WebCal subscriptions, …) simply
appears, and everything you create or edit syncs back the same way. No own
database, no sync stack reinvented.
✨ Features
Calendar
- Month, week, and day views with a one-tap view switcher
- Full event details — attendees and their responses, reminders, recurrence (humanized), availability, visibility, foreign time zones
- Per-calendar visibility toggle, grouped by account
Editing
- Create, edit, and delete events — including recurring events with scoped writes: only this event, this and all following, or the whole series
- Recurrence picker with one-tap presets and custom rules (interval, weekday toggles, end conditions); rules it can't express are preserved verbatim
- Conflict-safe saves: if an event changed elsewhere while you were editing, Calendula asks instead of silently overwriting
- Read-only calendars (WebCal, birthdays) are detected and respected
Reminders
- Event reminders delivered by Calendula itself as notifications — essential when it's your only calendar app, since Android delegates reminder delivery to calendar apps
- Tap a reminder to land on the event
Design & privacy
- Real Material 3 Expressive throughout — dynamic color (Android 12+), expressive motion and shapes, light/dark theme
- German and English UI, per-app language setting — and open to community translations
- Zero telemetry, zero analytics, no internet permission — your data never leaves the device
📦 Install
F-Droid (recommended)
Calendula is on the official F-Droid repository — just search for Calendula in any F-Droid client, or install it from f-droid.org.
Self-hosted repo (latest builds)
New versions are built, signed, and published to a self-hosted repository the moment each tag lands — usually a few days ahead of the official repo, which rebuilds on F-Droid's own schedule. Add it for the freshest builds:
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In your F-Droid client, open Settings → Repositories → Add (or open the link below on your phone):
https://apps.dev.jeanlucmakiola.de/dev/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C2C0640402BF458FC0ED957AF0B37AA4C14022E72F89CE90B5965B458CF73425Repo:
https://apps.dev.jeanlucmakiola.de/dev/fdroid/repo· fingerprint (SHA-256):C2C0 6404 02BF 458F C0ED 957A F0B3 7AA4 C140 22E7 2F89 CE90 B596 5B45 8CF7 3425 -
Refresh, search for Calendula, install.
Both channels share the same signing key, so you can switch between them without reinstalling. Or build from source — see below.
📚 Documentation
- Building from source — requirements and Gradle tasks
- Architecture — the layered design and key pipelines
- Roadmap — what's shipped and what's next
🌍 Translations
Calendula ships in German and English, and you're warmly invited to add your language. Translations are managed on a self-hosted Weblate:
No coding needed — register on the Weblate server, pick (or request) a language, and translate the strings in your browser. You can also reach this link in the app from the top of Settings → App language.
📜 License
MIT — Jean-Luc Makiola, 2026