Bits from the release team: Planning, request for help

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Hi

 

Release planning

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Proposing a new freeze date is not easy. Taking into account all of

the feedback we have received, both online (by e-mail, IRC) as well as

in person, and some challenging release goals we have set for ourselves,

we propose freezing in March 2010.

 

Request for help

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As in our previous update, we want to stress that the state

of unstable and testing is not very good. We still have a large number

of Release Critical bugs and problems ensuring the smooth

transition of packages to testing.

 

To get the number of RC bugs down, we will be more aggressively

removing fringe packages from testing and request your help in

fixing bugs, following the build status of your packages and

organising bug squashing parties (BSPs [0][1][2]).

 

In order to help ensure the smooth migration to testing of packages

involved in library transitions, we ask you to try to avoid uploading

packages when doing so would disturb an existing transition. Executing

``grep-excuses '' (from the devscripts package) before uploading

can help a lot.

 

If you are interested in helping or joining the Release Team, please

contact us (in private or public) and we'll see how to make it work.

 

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

 

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http://release.debian.org

Debian Release Team

 

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2009/CambridgeNovember

[2] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Moenchengladbach

 

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