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RCBW - week #11

Here is this week squashes, by yours truly:

This week I've been both lazy and lucky, with a single NMU of db4.2 3 RC bugs were gone (well, truth to be said, I've discovered later on that db4.2 is not meant to be released with Squeeze, but well, stuff happens ...) and with some triaging a few more were gone too. The rest is nothing special.

Also, during past week, Tim got back to my welcome message, adding some interesting considerations. Beside the issue of personal sponsorship, I fully agree that we used to lack pointers to NMU activity in NM. Now it is a bit better, though. As an AM, I pose the "please fix at least 2 RC bugs" question, and the usual outcome is the sponsoring of NMUs prepared by applicants. But surely we lack a more general "culture" of NMU, which is de facto more and more needed to actually deliver our releases.

In fact, my RCBW initiative is not meant to make other people feel bad (hello Gunnar, we all love you and your work, and you should know that :-) ). Rather, it is meant to convince people that fixing RC bugs (at least some of them which are nevertheless a huge slide of the total) is easier than what we might think and help fighting the boredom. Not sure it is being successful in its "marketing" facet, but it has surely been fun for me thus far!