Hi everyone, As you may have noticed [0], last weekend's bug-squashing party (BSP) was very successful... which is all the more reason to have another one! :-) Debian Women will be holding a BSP this weekend (September 10th and 11th) to coincide with Software Freedom Day [1], a global grassroots effort to promote free and open source software, organised by 200 teams world-wide. Coordination for the BSP will happen on the #debian-bugs IRC channel on irc.oftc.net. (Note this is *not* the usual bug-squashing channel.)
The main goal of this weekend's BSP is to encourage people who haven't previously attended a BSP to get involved. 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. The Technical Information ========================= As QT and kdelibs also have made their C++ transition in unstable we should now be able to target almost all g++ 4.0 related bugs. While uploads for the C++ transition 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 on #debian-bugs (on irc.oftc.net) for review, or upload to the DELAYED queue [4,5] to give the package maintainer some time to respond. Finally, everyone should consider reading the two announcements by Matthias Klose and Steve Langasek about the C++ transition [6,7] and the mails by Colin Watson and Pascal Hakim about the latest bug-tracking system features [8,9] before attending the BSP. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ [1] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org [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/2004/02/msg00887.html [5] http://people.debian.org/~djpig/delayed.html [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00001.html [7] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00007.html [8] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00010.html [9] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00014.html Regards, -- hanna m. wallach http://join-the-dots.org/
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