[Mageia-dev] Bug off!

Thu Mar 22 22:16:27 CET 2012

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/
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+
+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
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