From: Lars Weiler <pylon@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-gwn@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 24 July 2006
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:43:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060725064335.GA15724@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> (raw)
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 24 July 2006.
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1. Gentoo news
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Sun T2000 donation
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On June 20th, Gentoo was approached by David Killian from Sun's Niagara
Product Team, offering a Niagara box for development, porting, and
testing. The T2000 is equipped with the new UltraSPARC T1 processor, a
massive, yet very power efficient, 8-core multithreading processor. The
machine is being hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Labs
and it currently being used to build the upcoming 2006.1 release. It will
then be used for further development by SPARC-team members, and other
Gentoo developers whom do not have access to SPARC equipment.
For the curious, there is a boot log[1] provided by Gustavo Zacarias[2] in
his developer web space.
1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/bender-bootlog.txt
2. gustavoz@gentoo.org
Ethereal moves to wireshark
---------------------------
As many of you may already know, Ethereal[3] has moved to Wireshark[4].
Due to security vulnerabilities, Bug #140856[5], and the assumption that
Ethereal is not being developed further[6], Gentoo has decided to drop the
Ethereal package in favor of Wireshark. To make this transition as
seamless as possible, Wireshark should appear when you attempt to update
Ethereal.
3. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb396098.htm
4. http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2
5. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140856
6. http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-cvs/200605
To keep your filters and other configurations that you had as a user you
are required to manually move your Ethereal configuration to Wireshark as
follows:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 1.1: |
| Ethereal to Wireshark configuration change |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
|cd $HOME |
|mv .ethereal .wireshark |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
User representatives election open
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The Gentoo User Relations[7] project is happy to announce that the
elections for the position of User Representative[8] are now open.
7. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/index.xml
8. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/userrep.xml
The candidates have each written some information[9] about themselves and
what they would like to achieve.
9. http://dev.gentoo.org/~mark_alec/userrel/elections.html
You can only vote once, so carefully consider who you would most like to
represent you. To vote, go to the User Representative Elections[10] and
select your user representative.
10. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-482799.html
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2. Heard in the community
=========================
forums
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Deletion of Inactive user accounts
Gentoo developer Tom Knight[11] has made an announcement on the Gentoo
Forums, warning that a cron job will be run, starting on the 28th of July
and running monthly, to delete inactive user accounts. The current
estimate is that the cron job on its first run will delete around 23,000
accounts. More details about the criteria for deletion are available in
the announcement.
11. tomk@gentoo.org
* [forums-announce] Upcoming deletion of inactive accounts[12]
12. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-482616.html
planet.gentoo.org
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gentoo-stats test request
One of the projects implemented in this year's Google Summer of Code is a
new Gentoo stats implementation allowing architecture teams to know how
much testing a package gets and what type of CFLAGS and USE flags our
users utilize. Though most modules aren't ready yet Marius Mauch[13] put
together a tarball to allow users starting test the client-modules that
are already supposed to work.
13. genone@gentoo.org
* gentoo-stats test request[14]
14. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/genone/2006/07/22/gentoo_stats_test_request_1
Nostalgic moments
Starting with a users asking for old Portage sources Simon Stelling[15]
started a trip in Gentoo's history. Besides old Portage 1.5 sources he put
together a snapshot of the Portage tree from March 24 2001, just the day
after Daniel Robbins added Portage 1.5 to tree. The tarball is "just" 11MB
in size (compared to current snapshots which take 30MB) and features 1134
Ebuilds and 648 packages in 51 categories.
15. blubb@gentoo.org
* Nostalgic moments[16]
16. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/blubb/2006/07/18/nostalgic_moments
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3. Gentoo in the press
======================
LXer.com (20 July 2006)
-----------------------
Author Hans Kwint has written the second in his series of articles on
Gentoo on the desktop, entitled A Gentoo diary part 1[17]. In this
article, he writes about switching from lilo to grub, from xmms to
audacious, and his setup of an old machine as a server.
17. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/65393
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4. Gentoo developer moves
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Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* Otavio R. Piske (AngusYoung)
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Joshua Ross (joslway) PPC64/Release Engineering
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* none this week
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5. Gentoo security
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libpng: Buffer overflow
-----------------------
A buffer overflow has been found in the libpng library that could lead to
the execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18]
18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-06.xml
xine-lib: Buffer overflow
-------------------------
A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with
xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]
19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-07.xml
GIMP: Buffer overflow
---------------------
GIMP is prone to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code when loading specially crafted XCF files.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]
20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-08.xml
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6. Bugzilla
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Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[21]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 16 July 2006 and 23 July 2006, activity on the
site has resulted in:
21. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 869 new bugs during this period
* 375 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 27 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 10567 currently open bugs: 52 are labeled 'blocker', 133 are
labeled 'critical', and 526 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Xavier Neys[22], with 25 closed bugs[23]
* Gentoo Games[24], with 20 closed bugs[25]
* Portage team[26], with 18 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[28], with 15 closed bugs[29]
* AMD64 Project[30], with 12 closed bugs[31]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[32], with 10 closed bugs[33]
* Java team[34], with 10 closed bugs[35]
* Python Gentoo Team[36], with 9 closed bugs[37]
22. neysx@gentoo.org
23. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@gentoo.org
24. games@gentoo.org
25. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
26. dev-portage@gentoo.org
27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
28. gnome@gentoo.org
29. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
30. amd64@gentoo.org
31. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
32. x11@gentoo.org
33. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
34. java@gentoo.org
35. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
36. python@gentoo.org
37. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=python@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[38], with 33 new bugs[39]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[40], with 11 new bugs[41]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[42], with 11 new bugs[43]
* Mozilla Gentoo Team[44], with 9 new bugs[45]
* media-video herd[46], with 9 new bugs[47]
* AMD64 Project[48], with 9 new bugs[49]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[50], with 8 new bugs[51]
* Gentoo Science Related Packages[52], with 7 new bugs[53]
38. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
39. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
40. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
41. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
42. base-system@gentoo.org
43. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
44. mozilla@gentoo.org
45. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=mozilla@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=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
48. amd64@gentoo.org
49. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
50. gnome@gentoo.org
51. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
52. sci@gentoo.org
53. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&assigned_to=sci@gentoo.org
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