Bug Squashing Parties
This page is intended to be used to coordinate the work at Bug Squashing Parties (BSP).
A Bug Squashing Party is a come-together (either virtual or reallife) of Debian Developers and Debian enthusiasts on a specified timeframe where these persons try to fix as many bugs as possible.
Next BSP November 26th to 28th. Come to #debian-bugs on irc.debian.org.
Usefull links:
[http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ RC Bugs]
[http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php RC Bugs, marks uploads to delayed and claims]
[http://people.debian.org/~djpig/delayed.html DELAYED Queue]
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/claims.cgi Claims page]
- ["BSPlanning"] - - Bug Squashing Party Planing
What you can do
Testing d-i rc2. See http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Test woody->sarge upgrades
Fix RC bugs. See http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
Fix bugs in orphaned packages. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=packages@qa.debian.org
Fix tricky bugs, tagged "help". See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=help
Fix important bugs, see http://bugs.debian.org/severity:important
Upload targets
Please don't NMU packages in testing-proposed-updates without prior agreement from the release team; otherwise, this makes life only harder for us. You should consider bugs that can be fixed via unstable the first priority.
While fixing a package, please take also a look at non-RC/non-important bugs of that package that could be fixed by the same NMU, especially for l10n bugs (or adding amd64).
Please see http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu for details on how to do ["NMUs"].
Possible targets of NMUs and/or patches
These are both packages that need someone to prepare a patch for a non-trivial RC bug or packages that just need a NMU for an existing patch. Please discuss !["NMUs"] in #debian-bugs before actually uploading.
[http://bugs.debian.org/ghc5 ghc5] Patch available
[http://bugs.debian.org/ttcn3parser ttcn3parser] (needs newer kaffe)
[http://bugs.debian.org/plptools plptools] FTBFS: libtool screw ups
[http://bugs.debian.org/mesademos mesademos] please clarify copyright on images/girl.rgb
[http://bugs.debian.org/mtr mtr] FTBFS on hppa: automake1.5 no longer in the archive