MiniDebCamp Hamburg - Friday 18/5, Saturday 19/5

Friday and Saturday have been very productive days, I love events where there is time to hack!

I had more chats about contributors.d.o with Ganneff and Formorer, and if all goes according to plan, soon salsa will start streaming commit information to contributors and populate information about different teams: not only about normal packaging repos, but also about websites, tools, native packages, etc.

Note that the latter require special configuration, and the same goes if you want to have separate stats for your team (like for the Go team or the Perl team). So if you want to offer proper attribution to members of your team, please get in touch!

I spent loads of time working on Prometheus packages, and finally today (after almost a year) I uploaded a new version of prometheus-alertmanager to experimental. I decided to just drop all the web interface, as packaging all the Elm framework would take me months of work. If anybody feels like writing a basic HTML/JS interface, I would be happy to include it in the package!

While doing that, I found bugs in the CI pipeline for Go packages in Salsa. Solving these will hopefully make the automatic testing more reliable, as API breakage is sadly a big problem in the Go ecosystem.

I am loving the venue here. Apart from hosting some companies and associations, there is an art gallery which currently has a photo exhibition called Echo park; there were parties happening last night, and tonight apparently there will be more. This place is amazing!