[gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 27 February 2006

[Ulrich Plate <plate@gentoo.org>]

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1. Gentoo news
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2006.0 released
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The first Gentoo Linux in the 2006 series has been available since 0:00 
UTC today, complete with three desktop environments (KDE, GNOME and XFCE), 
GCC 3.4.4 and a 2.6.15 kernel. This milestone release is the first to 
include the brand new Gentoo Linux Installer, official support for EM64T, 
a fully-fledged Gnome environment, and NPTL toolchains in various 
architectures. 
 
Architectures from Alpha to Sparc have improved significantly over 2005.1, 
providing more features and options than ever before, and with PPC64 
making Gentoo the first Linux distribution to provide optimized packages 
not only for the G5, but also the POWER5 architecture. More details about 
this release can be found on the Release Engineering project's 
announcement page[1]. 

 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.0/2006.0.xml
    
Gentoo at FOSDEM 2006
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This year's FOSDEM, Europe's most important meeting for open-source 
development, saw more Gentoo developers and from more countries than ever. 
Visitors to the Gentoo booth could grab a 2006.0 release on CD for x86, 
PPC and AMD64 before anyone else, and the presentations at the Gentoo 
devroom gave a broad overview of activities in the project.
 
The first CDs of the 2006.0 release were selling faster than the three 
busy burners could produce them, and T-Shirts were sold out by tea time on 
the first day. The architectures on display managed to raise more than 
just a few eyebrows: a Sun Ultra 20 running Solaris 9 complete with 
Portaris, the Portage port to Sun, Inc.'s operating system, and two 
generations of Genesi[2]'s PowerPC workstations, the Pegasos ODW, were the 
highlights at the booth. 

 2. http://ww.genesi.lu
 
Figure 1.1: Release media for 2006.0, workstations on display
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_fosdem1.jpg
 
Crowds were particularly thick in front of the Gentoo stand, a major 
attraction among the many projects represented at the conference. Two 
dozen Gentoo developers took turns manning the booth, supported by freshly 
roasted coffee from Chicago, courtesy of Mike Doty[3] who probably needed 
it most, too. 

 3. kingtaco@gentoo.org
 
Figure 1.2: Left to right: plate, genone, grobian, patrick, hansmi, SeJo, 
and kingtaco
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_fosdem2.jpg
 
Figure 1.3: Left to right: pvdabeel, usata, ferdy, and wolf31o2
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_fosdem3.jpg
 
Even the FOSDEM quantum singularity, a traditional event witnessed every 
year since the first visit of Daniel Robbins[4] to Brussels in 2003, 
happened at the Gentoo booth. Logic collapsed in a spectacular way when 
the only wireless connectivity available to all the open-source projects 
in the corridors of FOSDEM had to be provided temporarily from Jochen 
Maes'[5] iBook -- running Mac OS X. 

 4. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030224-newsletter.xml
 5. sejo@gentoo.org
    
3rd European Gentoo Developer Meeting
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Figure 1.1: Gentoo developers meeting at FOSDEM 2006
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_devroom.jpg
 
Embedded between the morning and afternoon presentations for the general 
public at the FOSDEM devroom, the third edition of the European Gentoo 
developer community meeting was anything but a luncheon. 25 developers 
from around the globe had found their way to Brussels and spent two hours 
discussing the most pressing issues for Gentoo. The very concentrated 
debate focussed on how the project should represent itself when appearing 
in public: conference organization, press relations and PR will be 
reorganized. 
 
Developer relations and recruiting were the second main topic, with Mike 
Doty promoting the highly successful AMD64 archtesters as a role model for 
other projects. Archtesters allow for thorough testing of packages until 
they fail to break under no circumstances, and they typically gain Gentoo 
developer status much easier because they get a chance to prove their 
abilities to an entire peer group, not just an individual mentor as in 
traditional recruiting. 
 
Some of the current organizational deficits in the relationship between 
the Gentoo Foundation and satellite organizations in Europe and elsewhere 
will be addressed over the next months, with the purpose of binding local 
support chapters or associations in various countries into a fully-fledged 
umbrella structure. The aim is to set up the necessary structure to assign 
and transfer tasks and duties, make funding available where it's most 
needed, and protect the licenses and trademarks in an effective manner. 
    
Bugday on 4 March
-----------------
  
The Gentoo Documentation Project[6] will be taking part in the upcoming 
Gentoo Bugday[7] on this coming Saturday, 4 March 2006. There are a number 
of open bugs that the team wishes to resolve and would like to call upon 
interested people to join them in #gentoo-bugs and #gentoo-doc and help 
squash the docs buglist down to zero. 

 6. http://gdp.gentoo.org
 7. http://bugday.gentoo.org
    
Erratum
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In the GWN of 6 February, the venue for the spring open-source 
conference[8] in Tokyo came out slightly garbled. The Japan Electronics 
College where the conference is going to take place is not in Ogikubo as 
originally published, but in Okubo. We apologize for the mistake. 

 8. http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006
    
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2. Gentoo international
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Germany: Chemnitzer Linuxtage
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Tobias Scherbaum[9], Jens Blaesche and Gentoo's former developer and MIPS 
port founder Jan Seidel will represent Gentoo at the  Chemnitzer 
Linuxtage[10] next weekend in East Germany's Saxony region. This year's 
Gentoo booth once again provides easy-access to merchandising articles 
including Shirts, Posters and Case badges. Especially for users in this 
region without the possibility of broadband Internet-access the German NFP 
"Friends of Gentoo e.V.[11]" remastered the 2006.0 release-media and put 
them together with stages and lots of distfiles on a DVD which will only 
be sold in Chemnitz. 

 9. dertobi123@gentoo.org
 10. http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de
 11. http://www.gentoo-ev.org
 
On Sunday morning, Gentoo Developer Tobias Scherbaum will give a talk 
about "The Gentoo Metadistribution[12]", an introduction to Gentoos 
history and evolution, Gentoos special features and technical aspects. 
Finally we would like to invite Gentoo users to visit our booth and tell 
us about their first experiences with the last 2006.0 Gentoo release. We 
are looking forward to meeting you in Chemnitz! 

 12. http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2006/vortraege/detail.html?idx=343
    
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3. Gentoo developer moves
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Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: 
 
 * None this week 
    
Adds
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: 
 
 * None this week  
    
Changes
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
 
 * None this week 
    
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4. Gentoo Security
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OpenSSH, Dropbear: Insecure use of system() call
------------------------------------------------
  
A flaw in OpenSSH and Dropbear allows local users to elevate their 
privileges via scp. 
 
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[13] 

 13. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-11.xml
    
GPdf: heap overflows in included Xpdf code
------------------------------------------
  
GPdf includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it 
vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code. 
 
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[14] 

 14. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-12.xml
    
GraphicsMagick: Format string vulnerability
-------------------------------------------
  
A vulnerability in GraphicsMagick allows attackers to crash the 
application and potentially execute arbitrary code. 
 
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[15] 

 15. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-13.xml
    
noweb: Insecure temporary file creation
---------------------------------------
  
noweb is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user 
to overwrite arbitrary files. 
 
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[16] 

 16. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-14.xml
     
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5. Bugzilla
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Statistics
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[17]) to record and 
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the 
development team. Between 19 February 2006 and 26 February 2006, activity 
on the site has resulted in: 

 17. http://bugs.gentoo.org
 
 * 785 new bugs during this period 
 * 380 bugs closed or resolved during this period 
 * 26 previously closed bugs were reopened this period 
 
Of the 9431 currently open bugs: 65 are labeled 'blocker', 156 are labeled 
'critical', and 517 are labeled 'major'. 
    
Closed bug rankings
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period 
are: 
 
 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[18], with 19 closed bugs[19]  
 * Gentoo Sound Team[20], with 14 closed bugs[21]  
 * Perl Devs @ Gentoo[22], with 13 closed bugs[23]  
 * Heinrich Wendel[24], with 12 closed bugs[25]  
 * Gentoo Games[26], with 10 closed bugs[27]  
 * Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[28], with 9 closed bugs[29]  
 * Robin Johnson[30], with 9 closed bugs[31]  
 * Xavier Neys[32], with 9 closed bugs[33]  
 18. base-system@gentoo.org
 19. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
 20. sound@gentoo.org
 21. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
 22. perl@gentoo.org
 23. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=perl@gentoo.org
 24. lanius@gentoo.org
 25. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=lanius@gentoo.org
 26. games@gentoo.org
 27. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
 28. toolchain@gentoo.org
 29. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
 30. robbat2@gentoo.org
 31. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=robbat2@gentoo.org
 32. neysx@gentoo.org
 33. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@gentoo.org

    
New bug rankings
----------------
  
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during 
this period are: 
 
 * Default Assignee for New Packages[34], with 44 new bugs[35]  
 * AMD64 Porting Team[36], with 10 new bugs[37]  
 * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[38], with 9 new bugs[39]  
 * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[40], with 8 new bugs[41]  
 * Perl Devs @ Gentoo[42], with 7 new bugs[43]  
 * Gentoo KDE team[44], with 7 new bugs[45]  
 * media-video herd[46], with 6 new bugs[47]  
 * Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage[48], with 6 new 
bugs[49]  
 34. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
 35. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
 36. amd64@gentoo.org
 37. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
 38. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
 39. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
 40. gnome@gentoo.org
 41. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
 42. perl@gentoo.org
 43. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=perl@gentoo.org
 44. kde@gentoo.org
 45. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
 46. media-video@gentoo.org
 47. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
 48. media-tv@gentoo.org
 49. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=media-tv@gentoo.org

    
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Ulrich Plate <plate@gentoo.org> - Editor
Shyam Mani <fox2mike@gentoo.org> - Author
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