Bugathon, yeah it's time again

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:00:03AM +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > Ok, heads up folks.
> > 
> > Ports have been frozen for some weeks now, and it's only a matter of
> > time before ice starts melting. So we're planning to hold the next
> > bugathon next week end (well, in one week). Same server, same channel
> > (#freebsd-bugbusters @ EFNET), you have one week to grab a list of PR
> > and start working on them.
> > 
> Althought the ports tree is frozen, we are still very interesting in
> getting fixes to current versions in the ports tree. Even within the
> restrictions of a freeze, there are plenty of problems to fix out there
> to be found at the usual places (portsmon/pointyhat). A lot of those
> have been ignored for some time as people are too busy with version
> upgrades and thus they could use some extra attention.
> 
> I'll be out traveling to several conferences the upcoming weeks, but I'd
> really like to see some focus towards fixing errors instead of version
> upgrades or PR busting.

If we'd thought about it we probably could have really benefited from
a freeze bugathon, where the aim is to only fix port errors.
Something to remember for next freeze.

Kris
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