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-[[!meta title="SIPB Bug-Squashing Hackathon for Lenny"]]
-
-SIPB is running a **bug-squashing hackathon** for release-critical
-bugs in Debian Lenny.
-
-Place: **W20-557**, the SIPB office
-Date: **Saturday**, 2008-12-13, between end-of-classes and finals week
-Time: starting **2 PM**, running to about 10 PM; come for any portion
-
-Contact the SIPB Chair, Greg Price (`price@mit.edu`), or Vice-Chair,
-Nelson Elhage (`nelhage@mit.edu`), with any questions. During the
-hackathon just call the office at (617) 253-7788.
-
-
-## FAQ
-
-**Q**: What's Lenny?
-**A**: Lenny is the **upcoming next stable release** of Debian
-GNU/Linux. It was scheduled for September 2008 but has slipped to
-spring 2009. The last release was Etch in spring 2007, so Debian
-users are eagerly awaiting a new release.
-
-**Q**: What's a release-critical bug?
-**A**: A **release-critical (RC) bug** is a Debian bug of any of
-the highest levels of severity. RC bugs break a program completely,
-break some users' systems, or do similarly bad things. At last count
-there were 109 bugs (below) affecting Lenny. (**Update**: After the
-hackathon it's 105, with more fixes in the pipeline. Excellent.)
-Every one of those bugs has to be dealt with one way or another before
-Lenny will release.
-
-**Q**: How is this list of bugs different from
-[this one](http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/testing.html)?
-**A**: The list on `bugs.debian.org` includes bugs which have been
-fixed, but haven't passed a requisite waiting period before being
-introduced into Lenny. Our list is only bugs for which there is no
-fix.
-
-**Q**: I use **Ubuntu**. Why do I care about Debian releases?
-**A**: Because Lenny is in the final, "freeze", stage of the cycle,
-many Debian contributors are holding off new versions of the software
-they maintain in order to focus on stabilizing and bugfixing Lenny.
-Since Ubuntu depends on Debian for >90% of its packaging work, that
-means less new software for Ubuntu until Lenny releases.
-
-**Q**: I have **no experience hacking on Debian**.
-**A**: No problem, we have three Debian Developers pledged to
-attend, plus Debian-packaging experts from SIPB's Debathena and XVM
-projects. They'll all be focussed on helping newer people find a good
-bug, make progress and stay unstuck on solving it, and get the fixes
-applied in Debian. Just come ready to help with the skills you have;
-you'll be sure to learn something.
-
-**Q**: I don't have a lot of programming experience.
-**A**: No problem, **not every bug requires programming** to fix.
-Some bugs concern documentation or copyright issues, and anyone
-willing to track stuff down and write in English precisely can help.
-You'll still get experience with the issues software in the real world
-has to deal with, and probably read some code along the way.
-
-## Useful Resources
-
-[Debian Policy Manual](http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/): There
-will be people at the hackathon to help you with the packaging and
-policy aspects of updating Debian packages, but the Debian Policy
-Manual is a good reference.
-
-[Debian New Maintainers'
-Guide](http://www.us.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/): Where the Policy Manual is a fairly declarative document, this
-is more of a tutorial on how to build packages that comply with Debian
-policy
-
-[tabbott's Packaging Tutorial](http://debathena.mit.edu/packaging/): A
-summary of building Debian packages with CDBS, Tim's tutorial also
-includes a long list of useful commands for any sort of package
-development, as well as a list of useful sites
-
-[SIPB IAP class on Debian](http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/2009/#debian): A
-workshop where you can learn more about Debian packaging (the easy
-way! some of the packages you may have dealt with go through
-unnecessary complexity), with lots of hands-on examples.
-
-## Useful Packages
-
-The following Debian packages are useful for doing Debian development:
-`build-essential cdbs debhelper wdiff devscripts dh-make dpatch
-dpkg-awk dpkg-dev equivs fakeroot lintian quilt`
-
-If you're an emacs user, you may also want: `debian-el devscripts-el
-dpkg-dev-el`
-
-## The Bugs
-
-See [[lenny-bugs-all]] for a complete list. Attack one of the bugs that
-look good, or read through the unclassified ones to find the good
-ones.
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