Tonight I will remove the packages that should be removed entirely (due to license issues or obsoleteness). This weekend I will freeze potato, and then remove many packages with release-critical bugs from frozen.
I can't give an exact time for the freeze, because the process will probably take me all weekend. It is already time to start uploading important bugfixes with "frozen unstable" in the changelog. Note: Only upload with "frozen" alone iff the package in unstable has already been updated to a newer version. Be careful to keep all version numbers in frozen lower than the version numbers in unstable. After the freeze there will be one week "settling" time before the first Test Cycle starts. I may extend this to two weeks. Packages that were removed from frozen due to bugginess can be fixed and re-uploaded during this time. Once the Test Cycles start, it's too late. I know that there are a number of packages in Incoming that should still go into potato. I will process them this weekend. Richard Braakman