As aj said, it's Huntin' Season. The seventh Bug-Squashing Party for woody will take place on the third weekend of February: Friday 15th to Sunday 17th. Our goal is to get the release-critical bug count down to a level we can actually release by concentrating on diagnosing and fixing as many of woody's showstoppers as we can. If you want to see a quicker release, the most valuable thing you can do right now is to look through the lists of bugs against the base system and packages installed in standard configurations. These are the packages we can't do without, and they must be fixed. The lists are here: http://base.debian.net/ http://standard.debian.net/ It would help if developers and interested users both could spend time looking through these and the list of all release-critical bugs (http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/). Diagnose the problem, construct and test a fix, and send a patch to the bug tracking system. If a patch has been available for some time, a non-maintainer upload may be necessary. Read this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0201/msg00014.html We have hundreds of developers reading this, and many more interested people who would like to see Debian 3.0 getting out the door. There are 423 bugs in the way. While people should be fixing problems whenever they can, the point of dedicating time to a bug-squashing party is to help those people to use their skills where they're most needed, and to ensure that we duplicate as little work as possible. The bug-squashing party will be co-ordinated in the #debian-bugs IRC channel on the OpenProjects network (IRC server irc.debian.org). There will be people around throughout to offer advice and to review and upload patches. Please help fix bugs! -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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