(This mail has been shameless copied from another by Hanna M. Wallach). Hello, dear developers. This weekend the second edition of Debconf-es [0] will take place in Guadalajara, Spain, and we will be holding a BSP during the weekend (mainly on Friday and Saturday). The RC bug count [1] is going down, and we want to keep it as low as possible, so it is time to make a party before Christmas! The main goal of this weekend's BSP is mainly to encourage DebConf-es2 assistants who haven't previously attended a BSP to get involved, but any other newcomer will be welcome. If you've never participated in a BSP, this is a great time to start -- there will be lots of people around to answer questions, and plenty of bugs for all levels of of experience, skills and time commitment. First time bug-squashers should read Steve Langasek's "Squashing Release-Critical Bugs in Debian: A Primer" [2]. Steve also has several useful links [3], which are worth reading in advance of the BSP. Technical Information ===================== The second C++ transition, aka library renaming to c2a, [4] seems to be almost over. KDE 3.4.3 has been changing its dependencies much faster than before, and few packages do not have their dependencies updated. While uploads for the C++ library renaming should be the priority for non-maintainer uploads (NMUs) during the BSP, it would be extremely useful if non-DDs would work on filing bugs about the C++ transition, instead of submitting patches for previously reported bugs. During the BSP, we will use a 0-day NMU policy. This means that uploads that fix RC bugs that are more than a week old can be uploaded directly. However, if you feel unsure about a patch, perhaps because the patch is rather invasive, do ask to any Debian developer if you are in Debconf-es2, or on #debian-bugs (on irc.oftc.net) for review, or upload to the DELAYED queue [5,6] to give the package maintainer some time to respond. Finally, everyone should consider reading the mails by Colin Watson and Pascal Hakim about the latest bug-tracking system features [7,8] before attending the BSP. [0] http://www.debian.org.es/debconf-es2/ (only in Spanish) [1] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ [2] http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html [3] http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing-urls.txt [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00010.html [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/02/msg00887.html [6] http://people.debian.org/~djpig/delayed.html [7] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00010.html [8] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00014.html Thank you in advance, Ender. -- Network engineer Debian Developer
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