Hello, hello, hello!
This report for the Bug Squashing Party we held in Montreal on March 28-29th is very late ... but better late then never? We're now at our fifth BSP in a row1, which is both nice and somewhat terrifying.
Have I really been around for five Debian releases already? Geez...
This year, around 13 different people showed up, including some brand new folks! All in all, we ended up working on 77 bugs, 61 of which have since been closed.
This is somewhat skewed by the large number of Lintian bugs I closed by merging and releasing the very many patches submitted by Maytham Alsudany (hello Maytham!), but that was still work :D
For our past few events, we have been renting a space at Ateliers de la transition socio-écologique. This building used to be nunnery (thus the huge cross on the top floor), but has since been transformed into a multi-faceted project.
BSPs are great and this one was no exception. You should try to join an upcoming event or to organise one if you can. It is loads of fun and you will be helping the Debian project release its next stable version sooner!
As always, thanks to Debian for granting us a budget for the food and to rent the venue.
Pictures
Here are a bunch of pictures of the BSP, mixed in with some other pictures I took at this venue during a previous event.
