On 03/22/2012 10:16 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote: > In order to reach as wide a target audience as we have in mind with it, > please find below a courtesy copy of the latest blog post. > > http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/03/22/bug-off/ > ======================================================================= > > The past months, Mageia has been hard at work getting Alpha and Beta > releases out for our upcoming release Mageia 2. With Beta 2 out of the > door, and the release candidate on the way, it is time to reflect for a > moment on our current situation. > > A lot of hard work has been done by a lot of people. Developers, QA & > and triaging teams, and not in the least beta testers have worked hard > to improve our distribution to the best of our abilities and to ensure > that Mageia 2 will become a release for everyone to enjoy. > > During the testing, a number of bugs have been found which have been > marked as release blockers. While we are hard at work on resolving them, > there still is a lot to be done, and we can’t release while any release > blocking bugs are still outstanding. > > To this end, we’d like to invite everyone to participate in Mageia’s > first bug squashing party! > > The bug squash party will take place this weekend from friday 4 PM CET, > to monday 10 PM CEST in #mageia-bugsquad on the Freenode IRC network. > > We invite you to join in during this weekend to help us fix as many bugs > as we can! Everyone can help! If you are a packager, we encourage you to > get outside of your comfortzone and also have a look for example at > installer bugs, wifi bugs, systemd issues, and so on! As end user you > can help as well, we are still looking at increasing testing coverage to > see if we catch all major issues before going gold with our release. > Some bugs only manifest themselves on certain hardware profiles… if your > computer is affected by one of these bugs, we especially appreciate your > availability to help with testing to see if we can squeeze those nasty > bugs! > > Over the weekend, we will have a special page on our wiki where we will > track the status of all issues we’re working on, as well as a daily > update of our progress and work outstanding on the mailinglists -discuss > and -dev. > > We hope to see you on IRC in #mageia-bugsquad this weekend to help us > make Mageia even better and make Mageia 2 a rock solid release! > > Mageia Triage Team Have made an announcement in the Mageia-forum:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2127
