On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:57:07PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Considering that woody is partly frozen, we have an awful lot of > release-critical bugs (442 at the time of writing). It's been a long > time since the last bug-squashing party, so how do people feel about > holding another one? > > I suggest two weekends from now (Saturday 10th November / Sunday 11th > November), since that gives us about enough time to contact maintainers > and so on. (Although I suggest people have a look in advance at what > they might want to work on and drop people mails about it - doing things > en-masse can give a bad impression and results in whoever did it having > a very full mailbox.) Focussing on "standard" packages would be best (Priority: standard, and stuff in tasks, including X, KDE, Gnome, emacs, etc); and focussing on longstanding RC bugs would work pretty well too (there're a whole bunch that've been open for months, some for over a year). My count says there're only about 40 RC "standard" bugs, although it underestimates by a bit. Of course, if you want to look at normal bugs too... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. "Security here. Yes, maam. Yes. Groucho glasses. Yes, we're on it. C'mon, guys. Somebody gave an aardvark a nose-cut: somebody who can't deal with deconstructionist humor. Code Blue." -- Mike Hoye, see http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt
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