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 March 11th to 13th, 2005. 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. Also take a look at http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html which lists orphaned packages that not yet have set their maintainer field to the QA group.
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
Translations. See http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/
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. Also frozen packages can be fixed via unstable, as long as the package currently in unstable is fit for release (this usual means: testing and unstable have the same version)
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.
- configlet-frontends
- erlang
- gnome-cups-manager
Help/Review requested
For the following packages either help with fixing bug or with testing the package was requested: