New Year, Same Great People! Our Debian User Group met for the first of our 2024 bi-monthly meetings on February 4th and it was loads of fun. Around twelve different people made it this time to Koumbit, where the meeting happened. As a reminder, our meetings are called "Debian & Stuff" because we want to be as open as possible and welcome people that want to work on "other stuff" than Debian. Here is what we did: pollo:

• tested a laptop that had a defective battery with a known good one (the problem was indeed with the battery :D)
• renewed his expiring OpenPGP key
• worked on removing trapperkeeper-scheduler-clojure from the DebCI reject_list
• helped anarcat with packaging sigal
• managed to feed most of the people present :)

LeLutin:

• worked with lavamind to upload new upstream release of smokeping

mjeanson:

• migrated from lxd to incus on his servers
• helped anarcat with flashing his AirGradient

lavamind:

• submitted a bug report on r-cran-rserve (promptly fixed/uploaded by maintainer!)
• reviewed and uploaded smokeping
• bug triaged the facter package
• worked on puppet-agent new upstream version 8.4.0

viashimo:

• updated puppet-strings from 2.9.0 to 4.2.1
• reported upstream test failures on puppet-strings with recent versions of mdl

tvaz & tassia:

• drafted a call & request for funding for the Vanier College FLOSS Club hardware marathon at Eastern Bloc
• worked on an application to conduct research at Vanier College on Debian usability
• babysitted :-)

joeDoe:

• worked on his AirGradient
• debugged the WiFi and VPN setup on his new laptop

anarcat:

• worked on packaging sigal
• worked on flashing his AirGradient boards
• rewrote a Prometheus exporter for Airgradient devices
• brought over a car full of old computer gear to donate

Pictures I was pretty busy this time around and ended up not taking a lot of pictures. Here's a bad one of the ceiling at Koumbit I took, and a picture by anarcat of the content of his boxes of loot:

Our local Debian user group gathered on Sunday October 30th to chat, work on Debian and do other, non-Debian related hacking :) This time around, we met at EfficiOS's¹ offices. As you can see from the following picture, it's a great place and the view they have is pretty awesome. Many thanks for hosting us! This was our 4th meeting this year and once again, attendance was great: 10 people showed up to work on various things. Following our bi-monthly schedule, our next meeting should be in December, but I'm not sure it'll happen. December can be a busy month here and I will have to poke our mailing list to see if people have the spoons for an event. This time around, I was able to get a rough log of the Debian work people did: pollo:

• followed up with the DPL for upcoming Debian Python Team Sprint
• opened a wishlist bug (#1023140) on the devscripts package for uscan to verify git tags signed with SSH keys
• updated python-mediafile and mutagen to the latest upstream version

mjeanson:

• fixed RC bug #1022419 on babeltrace
• kindly hosted us, with the help of Mathieu Desnoyers

viashimo:

• started updating puppet-strings to 3.0.1
• was blocked in the process by tests requiring ruby-mdl, which is not packaged yet
• was blocked in packaging ruby-mdl by rubocop not being >= ~1.2x

lavamind:

• updated jnffi to 1.3.9, as part of the work on jruby he's been doing

anarcat:

• updated g10k to latest upstream

babelouest:

• updated node-jose to 4.10.4
• worked on bug #1021779 in libical3

tvaz:

• worked on updating apticron

As always, thanks to the Debian project for granting us a budget to buy some food!