Debian Weekly News - 2000 Timeline

This special supplement to Debian Weekly News is a review of the most important happenings of 2000 in the Debian world. This is certainly not a comprehensive list. The focus is on unusual and notable events, not the continual background development activity and discussions.

To give some idea of the sheer volume of what has gone on behind the scenes this year, a few numbers: 27 thousand bug reports were filed this year, while 194 thousand messages were posted to the various Debian mailing lists and nearly 33 thousand new versions of packages were uploaded. All of these numbers are up significantly from their 1999 values.

Here are the most memorable events of 2000 in the Debian project:

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

As Debian Weekly News enters its third year, I want to thank everyone in Debian for providing such a plethora of interesting discussions, events, and hard work for me to report on. It's been a wild year!


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Debian Weekly News is edited by Joey Hess.