p2k23 Hackathon Report: Marc Espie (espie@) on a flurry of packages activity
Off to Dublin, or almost.This ports hackathon started with a reminder that real-life bugs do matter:my morning flight was cancelled and I arrived in Dublin late that day.
Turns out that air traffic uses named waypoints, which are supposed to beunique, but there's no central name registry, and two local waypoints endedup with the same name, which caused huge confusion in air traffic to Ireland:planes making large detours. As it turns out, there ARE some safety regulations, so crews can't fly forever, and Aer Lingus had to cancel myflight: no idea whether the plane didn't make it to Paris, or if the crewlogged so many hours that they couldn't fly back.
(all of this info courtesy of sthen@ and mlarkin@, one being the thorough guywho always finds out the most obscure details, and the other one havingactual flying experience)