From: Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn AT diwi org> Hi Debian Maintainers. Andreas Barth has recently reminded[0] us that in six months we will have to get Etch out. According to our Release Managers' schedule, next week, we should have no more than 300 release-critical bugs. As of today, we are around 340[1]. That's way too far from our goal. We are consequently setting up a real life Bug Squashing Party next week-end near Paris as part of the BSP Marathon[2]. This BSP will be kindly hosted by "VIA - Centrale Réseaux", the student-managed network association of the École Centrale Paris engineering school at Chatenay-Malabry. Practical details (accomodation, food, location...) are all noted on the wiki page[3] (sorry for the short notice, though). It will be held from Friday evening to Sunday evening: June 9 - 11. The main objective will be to make us respect the release schedule and go under the 300 bugs bar (and even below, if possible). Anyone wanting to remotely help is of course welcome, and will find us on the #debian-bugs channel on irc.debian.org (OFTC). There should be plenty of bugs for all levels of complexity, programming language or legal skills and time requirements. So if you never attended to a BSP before and want to help, *now* is the right time to start. The RC Bug Squashing HOWTO[4] by Steve Langasek gives a good introduction and is probably a must-read for beginners. But don't hesitate to ask questions in #debian-bugs, we will be eager to get you to do some work :) Non-DDs can also easily contribute by creating patches and/or testing existing ones. Just send them to the related bug report, a DD can easily pick it up from there. See also the end of this mail for a list of useful links. Procedures: During the BSP we should use a 0-Day NMU policy again, that means uploads that fix RC bugs that are more than a week old can be uploaded directly. If you feel unsure about a patch and/or if the patch is rather invasive, please consider asking on #debian-bugs for review and/or giving the maintainer some time to react by uploading to the DELAYED queue[5]. So let us all *squash*[6]! [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00015.html [1] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00014.html [3] http://wiki.debian.org/FrenchBSP/200606 [4] http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html [5] http://people.debian.org/~djpig/delayed.html [6] http://adn.diwi.org/debian/squasher.jpg Other useful links: where to find available RC bugs: http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=etch&ignnew=on&new=14 build logs for failed builds: http://buildd.debian.org/ Explanations for missing binaries: http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php List of open RC bugs for a given source package: http://bugs.debian.org/src:<sourcepackagename> Information on opening new bug reports: http://bugs.debian.org/ Debian Policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette
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