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Re: Invite to join the Release Team



Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:14:01AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> I would be happy if you could point out any specific insanity in the
>> notes of the IRC meeting from yesterday. If it seems fine, it would be
>> great if you could work on drafting a release update informing the
>> project about the current status of squeeze and the plans for the
>> immediate future. FWIW, I have at the moment no idea what the status of
>> our release goals is, that's a subject someone needs to research.
> This seems worthwhile.  Would you like me to do this?

Yes, please!

>> We also need to get the number of rc bugs down if we want to release
>> squeeze this year. To this end, it would be great if one or more
>> (virtual) BSPs could be organized, possibly focussed at a specific type
>> of bug. 
>> Besides the number of RC bugs, we also have some widely used packages
>> where maintainers are overwhelmed by the number of bugs filed against
>> their packages (KDE, Gnome, iceweasel, ...) While not strictly a release
>> issue, triaging (and possibly fixing) bugs can be integrated into a BSP
>> to give people something easier (but nonetheless tedious :-/) to do.
> I think I am underqualified for this one because I have never understood
> the point of a virtual BSP.  I'll be happy to expend a minimal amount of
> effort trying to expend a minimal amount of effort on inspiring others
> to set up more in-person BSPs (with a triage focus).

I would be minimally happy about that.

Marc
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