-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-29 04:40, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes: > >> Next release >> ============ >> To my knowledge, we do not have one planned. Any suggestions? Are >> there any bugs/changes that you would like to see fixed or implemented >> in the next version? > >> Personally, I got my eyes on #617991, #622888, #527026, #387166 and the >> profile-proposal. Nevertheless, I doubt I will get all of them done in >> the near future (except those that already have patches :D ). > > I vote for removing the rc designation and kicking 2.5.0 out the door > relatively soon with whatever people have a chance to get done. We're > being much more conservative right now about rc versions than I ever was. > Version numbers are cheap -- we should use them up. :) >
Sure, I do not mind killing the ~rc part now, especially considering we have not seen any more of the inconsistent prefixes. :) I will go for finishing up the arch-dependent / multiple wildcard (starting with only simple archs for now) overrides before the upload then. We can release 2.5.0 after 2.5.0~rc3 migrates to testing. >> BTS cleaning >> ============ >> We are currently just a few bugs shy of 200 unfixed bugs and we have >> (mostly) stayed below 200 since early January (if you do not count >> pending bugs). While we have been able to keep the bug count down for >> the past few months, we have accumulated nearly 60 new bugs since May >> last year[BG]. >> We have been doing a fair amount of work to keep this down, but >> occasionally a bug or two slips through. Unfortunately, there are a lot >> of bugs, which I am not certain how to deal with. In some cases there >> is just the original report. That being said, I have also seen bugs >> with a bit of dialogue, where the report just ends with a lack of >> conclusion. >> So I am hoping we could arrange some day to (re-)triage bugs or/and >> simply just fix a lot of bugs. :D Perhaps as a part of DebConf11? > > Yeah, typically there are oodles of wishlist bugs with an idea for some > sort of check that requires a lot of thought and/or work to do properly > and avoid false positives. Those tend to accumulate without a lot of > energy investment. The only thing that really helps is more people. I'm > hopefully going to have more free time coming up, although Policy is in a > similar state and I've been working on that first since no one else has > really been committing there, whereas Lintian is at least treading water. > Not that it is helping Lintian or the policy, but DEP-7 also could use your attention. :P > It might be worth starting to use usertags for some of this, with a > "pending design work" or "idea for new test requiring lots of work" or > some similar kind of category so it's clear that those bugs are > significant projects that are parked in the BTS until someone has a chance > to work on them. > I think that might be a good idea, at least if it can help us find "easy" vs "hard/time-consuming" bugs. >> DebConf11 >> ========= >> Are there any plans for doing a Lintian BoF like last year or any other >> Lintian event for that matter? The official call for events is closing >> in 8th of May (less than 2 weeks from now) as far as I understand. >> Unlike the ad-hoc BoF last year - We might actually get it on video. ;) > >> Personally I plan to be present at DC11, but I have not bought a ticket yet. > > Unfortunately, I can't make it this year. But the BoF was great last year > and I definitely encourage the people who will be there to have one! > Hopefully you will be able to attend next time. :) >> Roll call >> ========= >> I have had a look at the list of current uploaders as well as the alioth >> project page[AliPro] and from these I have compiled the following list >> of people: > > Yeah, I was going to do this a while back and then never got to it. > >> [...] > > Josip was the maintainer before the move to Subversion and hasn't been > active in quite some time. Jeroen, Marc, and Frank were the new > maintainer team that took over from them. I think all four have been busy > with other things for a while and probably wouldn't mind being removed > from the Uploaders just to clarify who's currently active. (No real > reason to remove access beyond that.) > > Jordà did a ton of great work on the web pages and lintian.d.o but hasn't > in some time. I'm not sure if he's still interested / planning on doing > more work or not. > > Colin mostly commits various Ubuntu synchronization things when they come > up and has for some time, which has always been nice. His level of > involvement has been about the same while I've been working on Lintian. > Nice to get to know the team :) ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNu+HAAAoJEAVLu599gGRCn24P+QHJ+Vom72L/bulNvbT7XLR/ RcMdKwnCih2Fzx6Aab0DOlvBsa0pvJIDvYLOsMneRzC52cBn620Ptm5ok0dTCFpi j0MjhAhQnfM0sF2FyyEPhrPG/rQQNn6cNUW63Pr90LQqhb2/QDESqTxVCEfvuH4w gNeMkiYXqzqhgtFHmCotgk9mCzcDvPV3KeTIbTt79ESi4hVcGwKZmHrtzZKhnAsQ Hn8QZwYPvaSeQi+2TYxbErjki3powAmqxIq6IxOi7PCuIfcSw7wMaFWdY7Fs3FIG SBPF3cKEhHwIqRbCsthOF8nAA8N1qULG/+pPVgYFbnNtJZGfv/FHnFdDfdXHb8ZN H7HuiOYK7CIHdVNze0V38e2IGfZ6xr7/dfotTbyIPkHBYXUAqb4L4nTBjzqYfd3I TyPvlxVc7khKA/Ui7RR6M4tufjOvaUQvHDvknnW1Q60KnhJpFlHCPpX+DOdOArAc nn8qkh7QY5Gu23vABL7z/hoq6dt8Cjkr602MQS6m8hBgOZn+l8tzG0T2UiIw+5fv InsKDMx+O+lB8x8d5uw8cBVv04hq+hoLdTsEZ75fVCdM9aqKeD/OsJj8+RHN6BuZ HnjFATlEyS6NQiCDuSLq4D20XRqKcfDM3zYoNFZRJfhaIGxj6Kcj/1eaU21RL0mF SmDsCk98JY9Bn2pYzrpM =91bP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
