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Squeeze RCs's Squashing 2012 #2

Rhonda — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:18:00

This is the second entry in my series about squeeze release critical bug squashing. In response to my last blog post it was asked whether this is proper release critical bug squashing. Indeed there haven't been any patches or upload involved in this, only BTS handling, but this doesn't mean that these bugs weren't considered to be affecting squeeze. You can see this effort currently as weeding out the "wrong" bugs so that the list gets more useful and actually be able to ask maintainers to address the real issues.

You can at least see in this graph that the blue line is going down constantly since the year change instead of rising up like before. And I hope I will be able to keep it below the green line for a while still. Also thanks to the release-team and ftpmasters that it was possible to keep the massbugs about waf binary blob not being preferred source for modification out of affecting squeeze and ignore it for the current stable release—the required changes for those would rather be a fair bit intrusive for a stable update.

637213: doesn't fail in squeeze
648989: doesn't fail in squeeze
584568: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
624464: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
632106: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
632108: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
632262: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
632264: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
632265: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
632266: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only
595298: squeeze has linux 2.6.32
613732: doesn't fail in squeeze
616694: doesn't fail in squeeze
620264: doesn't fail in squeeze
620573: doesn't fail in squeeze
621440: libdb4.8 not obsolete in squeeze
624593: doesn't fail in squeeze
626868: doesn't fail in squeeze
628475: libdb4.8 not obsolete in squeeze
629838: boost1.46 not in squeeze
628475: boost1.46 not in squeeze
631623: doesn't fail in squeeze
639990: doesn't fail in squeeze
632763: no libevent 2.0 in squeeze
627000: not affecting squeeze
658216: doesn't fail in squeeze
654870: doesn't fail in squeeze
655115: this is explicitly about testing
657092: working in squeeze
655710: doesn't fail in squeeze
644691: no nautilus 3 in squeeze

I am glad that I managed to keep it up and even have a nice margin in case I can't put any effort into it some day but still have more bugs squashed than days there are in the year so far. Currently I am at 60 bugs in 39 days. This gives a warm feeling. :)

Enjoy!

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Games Screenshot Party

Rhonda — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:36:00

The following announce is lazily copied from Paul Wise's announce. There is only one thing I like to add: the screenshots that are submitted and collected on screenshots.debian.net are visible on the packages websites (both Debian and Ubuntu) and are also used by the software-center package, so they help people to get a first impression of the package they might want to install.

Have you ever wondered how to start getting involved in Debian/Ubuntu? Do you enjoy discovering new games and playing them? You might want to come to the games screenshot party! We hope that the party will be a fun, easy, low-commitment way to get involved.

The Debian/Ubuntu Games Team is organizing a half-day screenshots party on the weekend of 25th-26th February for creating screenshots for all the games that are available in Debian/Ubuntu.

If you are interested in attending, please add your availability to the poll linked from the announcement so that we can get some idea of attendance and when is a good time for the people who are interested.

Look forward to lots of game playing, screenshots and merry time, hope to see you all there!

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Squeeze RCs's Squashing 2012 #1

Rhonda — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:29:00

As sort of new year's resolution I started picking up the habit to work on release critical bugreports for squeeze again. The number is way to high to be healthy, but at least it is (still) below the amount of release critical bugreports for unstable.

It will be an uneven fight because it seems that there are quite some people working on weeding out release critical bugreports in unstable, but those who are interested in weeding out releasing critical bugreports in stable seems to be limited, even though it is one of our supported releases and thus should receive quite some attention, at least by the corresponding package maintainers themself.

So here is the list that I managed so far:

651792: not relevant for squeeze
653520: builds on squeeze
654568: re-add version information lost in reassign
654276: not relevant for squeeze
654257: not failing on squeeze
654810: not happening on squeeze
654459: not relevant for squeeze
654406: not release critical at all, shipped as upstream
655007: python2.7 isn't default in squeeze
655372: doesn't fail in squeeze
527403: libjack-dev in squeeze provides libjack0.100.0-dev
622903: not relevant for squeeze
625764: squeeze has older version of libvelocity-tools-java, not affected
654818: does work in squeeze
647795: squeeze still has libahven1-dev
647796: squeeze still has libahven1-dev
636823: not obsolete in squeeze
628500: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
629255: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
629284: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
629293: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636132: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636268: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636271: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636517: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636520: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636521: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636522: no perl 5.14 in squeeze
636823: not obsolete dependencies in squeeze

That makes 29 squeeze RCs squashed so far, I hope I can keep up with it.

Enjoy!

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Global2000 Geburtstagsfest

Rhonda — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:53:00

No, my blog isn't dead, and neither is me. It's just that way too many things happened since this year's debconf that got me a bit off tracks. I managed to do daily business like keeping my packages in shape and the backports queue low, and that was mostly it.

No clue if that will change anytime soon, but I guess I would like to keep you updated with an event where you can meet me next week: There will be the Global 2000 Birthday Party going on in the WUK on Thursday 20th, so if you happen to be in Vienna at that time, drop by and enjoy some great bands.

... which brings me to one of the local bands from Vienna: Heinz aus Wien. They are around for well over 10 years now and are still rocking quite well. Here are some examples of their songs, like always:

Wir sind immer noch: A sort of love song for this great town, Vienna.
Lieb im Prinzip: A very pithy song about relationships.
Ich hab mit Tocotronic Bier getrunken: Quite funny song from their early days, and interestingly, people regularly claim that it was done by a different band ...

Like always, enjoy!

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Games Team IRC Meeting #4

Rhonda — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:59:00

Another month, another Games Team IRC Meeting happening. This time it was decided to have it again on Sunday, the time was set to 10 am UTC. To find out the time in your localtime, issue date -d '2011-06-26 10:00 UTC' in your shell. The agenda can be seen as always in the wiki.

If the time or agenda doesn't fit your ideas, feel free to join our mailinglist to be informed about the discussion of agenda and time for the next meeting and raise your voice at that time. Please notice that the agenda isn't final yet, you can still drop your ideas for that.

Enjoy, and join if you care about improving games packaging in Debian and influence future development!

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