Since about 15 years ago, I have been thinking of creating a geo-referenced wiki of pubs, with loads of structured data to help searching. I don't know if that would be useful for anybody else, but I know I would use it!
Sadly, the many times I started coding something towards that goal, I ended blocked by something, and I keep postponing my dream project.
Independently of that, for the past two years I have been driving a regular social meeting in Dublin for CouchSurfers, called the Dublin Mingle. The idea is pretty simple: to go every week to a different pub, and make friends.
I wanted to make a map marking all the places visited. Completely useless, but pretty! So, I went back to looking into IkiWiki internals, as the current osm plugin would not fulfill all my needs, and has a few annoying bugs.
After a few days of work, I made it: a refurbished osm plugin that uses the modern and pretty Leaflet library. If the javascript is not lost in the way (because you are reading from an aggregator, for example), below you should see the result. Otherwise, you can see it in action on its own page: Mingle)
The code is still not ready for merging into Ikiwiki, as I need to write tests and documentation. But you can find the changes in my GitHub repo.
It is still a long way to go before I can create my pubs wiki, but it is the first building block! Now I need a way to easily import and sync data from OSM, and then to create a structured search function.
As Nicolas already reported, a bunch of Debian folk gathered in the North of Italy for a long weekend of work and socialisation.
Valhalla had the idea of taking the SunCamp concept and doing it in another location, and along with people from LIFO they made it happen. Thanks to all who worked on this!
I arrived late on Wednesday, after a very relaxed car journey from Lyon. Sadly, on Thursday I had to attend some unexpected personal issues, and it was not very productive for Debian work. Luckily, between Friday and today, I managed to get back in track.
I uploaded new versions of Prometheus-related package to stretch-backports, so they are in line with current versions in testing:
prometheus-alertmanager, which also provides a fix for #891202: False owner/group for /var/lib/prometheus.python-prometheus-client, carrying some useful updates for users.
I fixed two RC bugs in important Go packages, both caused by the recent upload of Golang 1.10:
- #890927:
golang-golang-x-tools: FTBFS and Debci failure with golang-1.10-go - #890938:
golang-google-cloud FTBFS: FAIL: TestAgainstJSONEncodingNoTags
I also had useful chats about continuous testing of Go package, and improvements to git-buildpackage to better support our workflow. I plan to try and write some code for it.
Finally, I had some long discussions about joining an important team in Debian, but I can't still report on that 
After a lovely car journey through the Alps yesterday, I had a good sleep and I am now in the airport waiting to fly back to Dublin.
I think most attendees will agree that the SnowCamp was a success; I was certainly sad to leave.. It always feels too short!
After my first report, I spent a few hours on fixing a long-standing bug in the KGB bot, which caused it to take several minutes to sync channels and start emitting notifications. I also used for the first time the salsa merge requests feature! The next release of the bot will include this patch and take just a few seconds to be up and running.
I also worked on another RC bug opened on a package I had fixed only the day before, due to another test failure: #891356: golang-google-cloud FTBFS: FAIL google.golang.org/cloud/spanner; which I have finished and uploaded a few minutes ago.
Finally, I had some more talks which can't be reported upon, and then the Camp was over 