The 2010 Debian Bug Squashing Party turned out to be a great success: around 200 bugs were fixed, ready for the forthcoming version of Debian.

The weekend of 22-24 January saw this year's Bug Squashing Party hosted yet again by credativ.  The aim of the weekend was to find and fix bugs in the next Debian release.  The results were as follows:

Work on Debian	Results
Installed Patches	5
Fixed Bugs	44
Non-critical Bugs	28
Completely removed Packages	87
Packages removed from Testing	29

Altogether that gives a grand total of 200 bugs.  In addition, information was gathered on a further 100 bugs, which will help when they come to be fixed.  A lot of time was also spent on quality assurance, an under appreciated but very important job.More gossip: it is rumoured that backports.org is not far off becoming an official Debian project... and in the meantime it will be launching a brand new website running on ikiwiki.

Our "guests" from far and wide were more than happy with the BSP party: Steve McIntyre: (Debian project leader)

Thanks to the folks at credativ for hosting and participating in the BSP - we got a huge amount of work done towards the next release and had a great time doing it!

Stefano Zacchiroli:

My 1st Mönchengladbach BSP, won't be the last! Lots of cool people and hacking, and I've enjoyed my 1st "traditional" Formorer's chilli too :).

credativ would like to thank all those who came and got involved - now you can lean back, relax and enjoy the photos of the event.