{"id":854,"date":"2014-11-09T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2014-11-09T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T14:35:15","slug":"jessie-frozen-can-we-release-before-fosdem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Jessie frozen, can we release before FOSDEM?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessie was frozen on November 5th<\/a>, as planned<\/a>. At the time of the freeze, 310 RC bugs remained to be fixed.<\/p>\n

This is quite an achievement from the project as a whole, and the Release Team specifically. First, we froze on the date announced more than a year ago, and the freeze seems to have been well respected by all maintainers.<\/p>\n

Second, with 310 RC bugs at the time of the freeze, we are probably breaking a record for all recent Debian releases (though I don’t have hard numbers for that). It seems that auto-removals of RC-buggy non-key packages helped a lot to keep the bug number under control. Assuming that all RC-buggy non-key packages were removed (which would be quite sad of course), we would even be down to about 150 RC bugs!<\/p>\n

Could we have the shorter Debian freeze ever? (wheezy: 44 weeks; squeeze: 26 weeks; lenny: 28 weeks; etch: 17 weeks). Given that FOSDEM is 12 weeks away, could we even release before FOSDEM, and have a big party there to celebrate?<\/p>\n

That’s not impossible, but we need everybody’s help. Random tip and tricks:<\/p>\n