Category Archives: Release-Team

After 3 months of installing an automatic decrufter in DAK, it: has removed 689 cruft items from unstable and experimental average removal rate being just shy of 230 cruft items/month has become the “top 11th remover”. is expected to become … Continue reading →

Debian now have over 22 000 source packages and 45 500 binary packages.  To counter that, the FTP masters and I have created a dak tool to automatically remove packages from unstable!  This is also much more efficient than only … Continue reading →

During the “intermission” on the day of the Jessie release, Julien, Ivo, AJ and I spent some time improving Britney2.  Due to said intermission, we can proudly say that from the very first run for Stretch, Britney2 was: running on … Continue reading →

It was quite an experience to partake in the Jessie release – and also a rather long “Saturday”.  This post is mostly a time line of how I spent my release day with doing the actual release.  I have glossed … Continue reading →

Indeed, we settled on a release date for Jessie – and pretty quick too.  I sent out a poll on the 28th of March and yesterday, it was clear that the 25th of April was our release date. 🙂 With … Continue reading →

Earlier today, I posted a mail to debian-devel about how approximately 25 RC bugs affecting Jessie have been unblocked.  As mentioned, I planned to age some of them.  The expected result is that about 18 of them will migrate tonight … Continue reading →

Here is a slightly overdue status on Jessie. We are not ready to set a date on a Jessie release yet.  Even if we were, it would be unlikely that said date would be in January.  Accordingly, it is safe … Continue reading →

In the last 24 hours, the number of RC bugs currently affecting Jessie was reduced to just under half of the same number for Wheezy. There are still a lot of bugs to be fixed, but please keep up the … Continue reading →

“Page 1 of 5” To be honest, I do not know how many mails it shows “per page” (though I assume it is a fixed number).  So for comparison, I found the month on debian-devel@l.d.o with the  highest volume in … Continue reading →

At the start of this week, I wrote that we had 58 open unblock requests open (of which 25 were tagged moreinfo).  Thanks to an extra effort from the Release Team, we now down to 25 open unblocks – of … Continue reading →