According to Anthony Towns's freeze plans, the base system is going to be frozen first, together with the boot floppies. In order to help bringing the base system in a good state, there will be a Base Bug Week from 30th April to 6th May.
During this week, developers and non-developers are welcome to join the IRC channel #debian-bugs on OPN (irc.debian.org) where coordination will take place. Since the packages in the base are important, NMUs are _not_ welcome. Instead, patches and comments which help to solve the bugs should be sent in through the Bug Tracking System (BTS). The maintainer can then use the patches sent in and save time. Since the base system comprises our most important packages, virtually all of which are installed on any Debian system, your help is really needed! While Bug Squashing Parties usually focus on Release Critical (RC) bugs, we should also try to get the number of normal (or even wishlist) bugs in the base as low as possible. This involves writing patches or documentation -- everyone can help with this; also non developers are encouraged to participate. To see a summary of the bugs in the base system, please visit http://base.debian.net/ See you next week on #debian-bugs! -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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