Debian announcements [LWN.net]

Steve McIntyre presents Bits from the 2IC. "First of all, we're still working towards an Etch release. It's a shame that it'll be later than many of us hoped, but again the new release is shaping up to be our best ever. It's not my place to second-guess the release team, but I'm hoping for a release soon. We're primarily waiting on the kernel to stabilise for release and a final debian-installer release candidate. We've got a few more RC bugs to polish off, then PARTY TIME!!! (Well, maybe some of us will have some more little spots of work to do in the last few days and hours... *grin*)"

The third call for nominations has gone out for the 2007 Debian Project Leader elections. The campaign period begins February 25, 2007.

Frans Pop has an update on key expiry that broke Etch. "This means that full CD and DVD images are now available again from, for all architectures (except S/390). The now available images are virtually identical to what will be released as D-I RC2, so testing and installation reports are most welcome."

Raphael Hertzog reports on Alioth downtime and lost data from the gforge database. "What is definitely lost however is the changes done to trackers/forums/surveys during that period and in general anything that is gforge-specific. We're really sorry for that, you can be sure we'll take required measures for the future."

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