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The Debian Weekly News for September 24, 2002 is out. There's a Debian Cluster serving as a research tool at Syddansk Universitet (University of Southern Denmark); SE Linux for Woody; and much more.

Rob Bradford supplied Bits from the RNE, a request for feedback on the 3.0r1 release notes.

Here's Gerfried Fuchs, the Website Translation Coordinator, with Bits from a WTC. Translators are needed to help keep non-English web sites up-to-date. "So, if you are interested and like to help to make the website more useful for the people in your country who aren't that good in english feel free to contact one of your translation coordinators..."

Raphaƫl Hertzog introduces the Package Tracking System. There are some new tools to help Debian developers keep track of their packages and any outstanding bug reports.


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Package Tracking System not only for Debian developers

Posted Sep 27, 2002 13:31 UTC (Fri) by rhertzog (subscriber, #4671) [Link]

I'd like to mention that the PTS is not intended only for Debian developers. It is a web interface accessible to everyone and in particular to outside people who may be interested by the work going on on a particular package in Debian :

  • advanced users / contributors
  • upstream authors who care about the status of their software within Debian

I hope that by letting more people keeping an eye on the packages, fewer of them will be badly maintained or simply forgotten. It may also encourage people to contribute to the package.

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