Testing has entered the main Debian archive. Testing is a new branch of Debian to complement stable and unstable. New uploads enter unstable, and if no bad bugs are found in two weeks time, flow into testing. Now that package pools exist, it was not too hard to make testing a part of the main archive . Testing is sure to have far-ranging implications throughout Debian, from package release frequency and everyday development, to porting and security fixes, to release timing and management.
Interesting times lie ahead.
Unsurprisingly, both the number of packages and the number of open bugs have increased since potato was released. Anthony's main concern is that the new debian-installer project is not ready yet, and the old boot floppies need several months of work to be usable for woody. Fixing Debian's buggy vote counting methods has been the topic of discussion on debian-vote for several weeks. The few people who have been involved in the discussion all agree that there are some ambiguities in the constitution that, if triggered, could make a vote unresolvable. A proposed fix for the problems turned out to have an obscure bug of its own.