Just as food for thought, here is an old email about what Debian does
when a release is coming up.   The abbrevations you see are:

  BSP - bug squashing party
  NMU - non-maintainer upload (e.g., Alice uploads a fix for Bob's
package)
  RC - release-critical

 -Lex


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