(Reply-to set to debian-boot list.) The weekend of 11-13 August has been dedicated to Debian Installer [1,2]. SkoleLinux has offered to host a real file BSP in Gütersloh (Germany) [3]. There are currently still two places available there; if you would like to attend, please register in the wiki. People not at the real life BSP are of course very welcome to participate. Coordination as usual via #debian-bugs and also via #debian-boot, both on irc.debian.org. NOTE It is *not* the intention that people upload NMUs for fixed bugs. One reason for this is that it is currently not certain that Beta 3 will have been released (although we certainly hope so); NMUs would severely disturb the release process. Another reason is that installer packages (udebs) are a bit more fragile where it comes to dependencies than regular packages because of relaxed policy requirements. Also, there are few or no really release critical bugs to warrant NMUs. You can really help us though by tracing problems and filing patches. Please have a look through the open bugs for the installer and see if there is anything you'd like to work on. - List of open issues to resolve before the Sarge release (see last section "Post-Beta 3 development"): http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/EtchBeta3Prep - Bugs in packages maintained by the D-I team: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-boot@lists.debian.org - Bugs in other packages that affect the installer: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=d-i&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done If you want to discuss something before the BSP, please contact the D-I team on #debian-boot or debian-boot@lists.debian-org. Some documents that may help you get started: - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Contrib - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/talks/debconf6/paper/ - documents in installer/doc in SVN Hope to see you during the BSP, Frans Pop P.S. The fact that the weekend is dedicated to the installer does of course not mean that you cannot work on other packages during that weekend. There're plenty of bugs out there! [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00014.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/BSPMarathon [3] http://wiki.skolelinux.de/BugSquashing2006
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