From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDQ3i-0003my-4h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:33:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7FDFE04C4; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6776DE049F for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [69.77.167.62]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B1767382 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) id 88920E04A6; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A92E049F for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 2167) id 92ECF672B9; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:39 +0000 From: Anant Narayanan To: gentoo-gmn@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 June 2008 Message-ID: <20080630202239.GA17074@woodpecker.gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-gwn@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-gmn@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gmn-feedback@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 004cf1a0-16c0-4c4e-9493-4ea94602a300 X-Archives-Hash: eea01e7c87bc0df951e1d428356e5cde ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= ~~~~ Gentoo Monthly Newsletter http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/ This is the sixth issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for May 2008 =E2= =80=93 June 2008. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= ~~~~ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 1. Introduction =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This month in the GMN --------------------- Welcome to the June issue of the Gentoo monthly newsletter! As usual, you can discuss any aspect of this issue of the GMN in the corresponding forum thread[1]. We look forward to hearing from you! 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5137714.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 2. Gentoo News =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Trustees Meeting Summary ------------------------ The Gentoo Trustees[2] held a meeting on June 22, 2008. The trustees are currently working on proposed Foundation bylaws. 2. http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/ * The bylaws draft[3] 3. http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/FoundationBylawsProposed_4= .xml Council Meeting Summary ----------------------- The Gentoo Council[4] held its monthly meeting on June 12, 2008. The item= s put up for discussion were: 4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ * PMS: Versions can have > 8 digits. If you want a maximum limit, discuss it with relevant people and propose one. * Appeals: Will be handled using dberkholz's proposal[5] * LDFLAGS=3D"--as-needed" by default: antarus will present a deployment plan to -dev for how this would proceed. * GLEP 54: There was a new proposal 12 hours before the meeting. Wait for discussion. Council members should post anything they have to add= by the end of the weekend. * GLEP 55: Discussion is clearly active. Council members should post anything they have to add by the end of the weekend. * GLEP 56: Technically good, still some room for improvement. Council members should post anything they have to add by the end of the weeke= nd. * PMS status: This is a discussion that belongs on the mailing list. Council members should post anything they have to add by the end of t= he weekend. 5. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-council/msg_d7c402fb577a3d5b1707e= 2bdf4b0a264.xml Some items were rolled over from the previous meeting: * Slacker arches: vapier needs to send the post 2+ hours before the meeting. Suggest changes. This should happen on-list. No discussion expected. * Document of being an active developer: araujo needs to post progress, an updated certificate and any new requests to the gentoo-council or gentoo-project list 2+ hours before the meeting. Suggest changes. Thi= s should happen on-list. No discussion expected. Coming Up --------- * Bugday[6]: Looking for a way to help out Gentoo without investing a lot of time? Join us on July 05 for our monthly bugday, and help us squash some bugs[7]. * Council Meeting[4]: The Gentoo Council meets every month to discuss important technical issues that affect Gentoo as a whole. This month'= s meeting is scheduled to be held on July 10, and everyone is welcome t= o participate - #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net at 2000UTC. 4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ 6. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/bugday/index.xml 7. http://bugday.gentoo.org/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 3. Gentoo International =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Germany: LinuxTag 2008 ---------------------- With more than 11,000 visitors, LinuxTag[8] in Berlin is by far the most important Linux and Open Source Software show in Europe. As in earlier ye= ars, Gentoo was again present at the expo after we missed the last two LinuxTa= g expos taking place in Wiesbaden 2006 and Berlin 2007. This year about 10 developers and other Gentoo enthusiasts (including users from the German support channel, #gentoo-anfaenger) helped man the booth. Even some phpBB developers showed up. 8. http://www.linuxtag.org Figure 3.1: Left to right: steffi, mah, echo, andy, Stefan Schweizer (genstef), Tobias Scherbaum (dertobi123), Benedikt Boehm (hollow), ashley (phpBB), lied, marek (phpBB), Fabian Groffen (grobian), Robert Buchholz (rbu), acm, sebastian, appro http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/group.png This year the booth was set up to convey information to the audience, ins= tead of showing hardware as in the years before. Nevertheless, the booth was populated with enough (Apple) laptop computers to open a little shop. One iBook was set up to display an automated installation process of Gentoo Linux[9]. Some visitors even asked where we were hiding that guy who was entering the commands so fast. :) 9. http://youtube.com/watch?v=3D6XbEJoR-ypo Powered by Larry the Cow (one tagged "OpenSSL") the team managed to survi= ve through the days, with the help of the popular drink "Club Mate." Friendl= y meet-ups with Debian and Ubuntu people did not escalate at all, and there= was even cooperation during the event. Sun engineers demoing OpenSolaris at t= heir stand were happy to give hints how to resolve a compilation issue that po= pped up during the port of Gentoo Prefix to OpenSolaris. Gentoo participated in the Hacking Contest held at the event and was represented by genstef[10] and two of our users, in an attempt to hold up Gentoo's reputation. The Gentoo team eventually won the second prize, a Nintendo DS. 10. genstef@gentoo.org Figure 3.2: Left to right: echo, appro, Stefan Schweizer (genstef), and t= he award presenter http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/winners.png On the last evening, the Ubuntu people organised a friendly barbecue part= y for everyone. The beer was free as in beer, and the meat "open source." T= he barbecue was held at C-base[11], Ubuntu's ~@Berlin, which from the inside= is an exciting space station with many man-hours invested in weird decoratio= ns and programs like essential alien rootkit checkers. 11. http://www.c-base.org/ Venezuela: FliSoL 2008 ---------------------- On Saturday April 26th, FLISoL 2008[12], Latin America's largest Free Software promotional and installfest ended, having taken place more or le= ss simultaneously throughout Latin America. In Venezuela, it was hosted in t= he capital city Caracas and other cities such as Barquisimeto, Cuman=C3=A1, = Los Teques, Maracaibo, M=C3=A9rida, San Crist=C3=B3bal and Valencia. 12. http://www.installfest.info/FLISOL2008 As well as being a free-for-all, catch-as-catch-can multiple distro installfest and promotion event, it also featured interesting talks on a = wide variety of subjects, including clusters, web development frameworks, security, VOIP and the Gimp, among others. In Caracas, the event was hosted at the ISEIT[13], where a small group of enthusiastic Gentoo users and devs, amongst which were angvp, alberkmann, neurogeek, sebasmagri, Ricardo Mendoza[14] and John Christian Stoddart[15= ], gathered to expound upon the multiple virtues of everyone's favourite meta-distro to all comers, live as well as on irc (#gentoo-ve on irc.freenode.net), while at the same time racing to complete installs on = wide variety of machines, troubleshooting hardware, handing out Gentoo minimal install and LiveCDs right, left and centre and even having time to demonstrate Frets on Fire on Gentoo. A few Gentoo lappies sported highly tweaked e17 desktops, laden with eye candy that caught everyone's attenti= on. 13. http://ve.iseit.net/ 14. ricmm@gentoo.org 15. chiguire@gentoo.org In M=C3=A9rida, Gentoo LiveCDs were hot items too, as was the demonstrati= on of games running on Gentoo. Many Gentoo enthusiasts were also reported at th= e Maracaibo event. Figure 3.1: Main image: The Gentoo corner with neurogeek in the middle of= a full Gentoo prescott class lappie install. Behind him, angvp (white shirt= ) and chiguire compare aspects of Arch and Gentoo. Upper inset, left to rig= ht: angvp, aspiring dev sebasmagri, lovely tatica (one of the main Caracas organisers, who also gave a talk on the gimp) and gentoo mips guy, ricmm. Lower inset: a spot of late lunch, left to right: sebasmagri, unknown, ri= cmm, neurogeek and chiguire. http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/gentoo-corner.png =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 4. Heard in the Community =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Interview: Google Summer of Code Student Nirbheek Chauhan --------------------------------------------------------- In the second of the series of interviews with our Summer of Code student= s, we chat with Nirbheek Chauhan[16], who is working on "AutotuA". Find out = more about him and the project by reading on! 16. nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com GMN: Give us a brief introduction of yourself. Where are you from? Where = and what do you study? What's your homepage or other means for fans to stalk = you? Nirbheek: Hello! I'm Nirbheek Chauhan (bheekling). I don't exactly "belon= g" to any single place (Dad's in the Army), although I was born in Chandigar= h, India. I'm currently in my 3rd year of B.Tech doing Civil Engineering at = IIT Kanpur. Fans and freaks are welcome to my blog[17] -- comments are open a= nd free for all. ^_^ 17. http://bheekly.blogspot.com GMN: Were you already involved with Gentoo and/or open source in general before acceptance into SoC? If yes, briefly tell us how you got involved = and why you like writing open source code. Nirbheek: I had been using Ubuntu as my full-time OS for a year before I shifted to Gentoo after Arun Raghavan (Ford_Prefect) nagged me to try it = out for the N+1th time. The first Open Source project that I contributed code= to was the Beagle Project[18] where I hacked on the experimental Beagle Webinterface[19] under the wonderful guidance of Debajyoti Bera (dBera). 18. http://beagle-project.org/ 19. http://beagle-project.org/Beagle_Webinterface I love Open Source (and specifically Gentoo) because it allows me to fix whatever problems I face on my own. There is documentation for almost everything out there, and where it doesn't exist, the code is always ther= e. Gentoo makes all this particularly easy since I just need to dump a patch= in ${FILESDIR}, add a line to the ebuild, and voila! I can have the package cleanly installed on my system with the fixes. The flexibility I get from this far outweighs the compile time for everything (although I would real= ly love it if a safe and working hybrid binary-source system were devised) GMN: How has your experience with the Gentoo community been so far? Nirbheek: I have found the developers, especially the GNOME Herd, the Moz= illa Herd, Infra, Bug wranglers, and the previous Council Members, to be extre= mely helpful, active, responsive, and sometimes terrifyingly efficient. All th= e people whom I see actively working on Gentoo are simply a pleasure to tal= k and work with. However, as is with most projects of such a size, there ar= e a few elements who seem to be spreading more chaos than actual contribution= . GMN: Please tell our readers a little about the project you're working on= , and why you think it will be helpful to Gentoo users. What was your inspiration for starting the project? What do you expect to achieve with = it? Nirbheek: The project was originally called (for lack of imagination) "Automate it All"[20] (*with* quotes). With the advent of further lack of imagination on Eric's[21] part, it was christened AutotuA[22]. The aim of= the project is to reduce the workload of Gentoo developers, make it easier fo= r users to help developers in testing, and increase the overall QA of the packages and ebuilds in the portage tree by making it easier for develope= rs to test (and coordinate testing of) changes made to the tree. 20. http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gentoo/appinfo.html?csaid=3D4718E0E= 515B5040C 21. http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/account/show/6 22. http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/projects/show/autotua The basic design consists of a master-server and numerous slaves. The mas= ter does bookkeeping of jobs, hosts the various resources, preserves state, a= nd manages distribution among the slaves. The slaves run jobs according to s= ets of instructions called "jobuilds" which are similar in spirit (and syntax= ) to ebuilds, but are used to describe the smallest "quantum of work". The (lengthy) details of how they all will work can be found in my first week= ly report[23]. 23. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_7b8cf5c6033d78f8afb3d5919= b81560b.xml My inspiration stemmed from frustration at having to do repetitive and ea= sily automatable tasks while testing packages. The last straw was testing xulrunner-1.9 (a dependency of Firefox 3) for breakages with packages usi= ng xulrunner (bug 213296[24]). The work was completely monotonous and time-consuming -- perfect grounds for automation. I could've scripted the work, but that would be a one-off thing and no one else would be able to = make use of it anyway. 24. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D213296 I told Patrick Lauer (one of my mentors) about this and my proposed solut= ion for it. He suggested that I apply for a SoC project for the same to make = sure I actually finish it. ;) He then managed to get Stephen Klimaszewski[25] interested and onboard for mentoring me, and voila! Here we are. :) 25. steev@gentoo.org I expect my project to cause a revolution in the way Gentoo works. GMN: What do you do when you're not coding? (hobbies, interests, favorite T.V. shows etc.) Nirbheek: Wait, what?! Coding *is* my hobby! But when I get tired of coding, I usually read books or (online) manga, d= o some photography (little experience however), watch Anime or Sci-Fi, writ= e random stuff, or play the occasional computer game (Half-Life 2 ftw!). Of course, this is all usually done with Nine Inch Nails, Feist, toe, Pea= rl Jam, R.E.M or Radiohead playing in the background. =3D) GMN: Thanks for your time, and wish you all the best for the summer! Gentoo Linux Headed for Space! ------------------------------ This article was written by Gentoo developer Joe Peterson[26], who works = for the Southwest Research Institute[27]. Joe already uses Gentoo Linux for projects such as the New Horizons[28] space operations center. Now, he'll take Gentoo where no penguin has gone before . . . 26. lavajoe@gentoo.org 27. http://www.swri.org/ 28. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/science/soc.php Gentoo is getting ready to fly into space aboard a rocket called the Rapi= d Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment (RAISE). The rocket is part o= f NASA's "sounding rocket program", and it is a relatively inexpensive way = to gather information about the Sun from light that cannot penetrate the Ear= th's atmosphere. Southwest Research Institute, where RAISE is being designed, = has a very active solar research group that is on the cutting edge of new discoveries about our closest star. One of the main mysteries that RAISE will help to solve involves the temperature of the solar corona. This outer atmosphere of the Sun is more than one million degrees centigrade, whereas the Sun's surface is a mere = 6000 degrees. Because the data to be collected by RAISE will give insight into= the mechanisms of energy conversion in the solar atmosphere, we hope to use t= his data to better understand this strange temperature inversion. RAISE will fly to an altitude of 350 km=E2=80=94well into space=E2=80=94a= nd then return to Earth via parachute. The total flight time will be about 14 minutes, givi= ng the rocket 6 minutes of "hang time" in space to collect data. Two ultravi= olet detectors will collect stereo images and 3D spectral/spacial "cubes" of d= ata. In the latter case, a mirror and slit will be used to scan across the Sun= and collect a UV spectrum at each pixel. Figure 4.1: Capture board running Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/board.png Gentoo Linux will be used on four processor boards in the flight electron= ics. One will be the central controller, and the other three will be dedicated= to capturing data from the instruments. Spectral "image" data will be collec= ted at 10Hz and stored on a solid-state PATA drive, which will be retrieved f= rom the rocket after landing. A minimal Gentoo installation will be included = on each board for flight. On the capture boards, we will add USB drivers for instrument I/O. In fact, we have our first capture board up and running already, and data is successfully coming in from our test camera in the l= ab. So stay tuned for further news about RAISE, and when it launches, remembe= r that all of the Gentoo Project's hard work went into making this rocket's operating system flight-ready! Planet Gentoo ------------- Manage your configuration: Puppet is a tool to manage your configuration = and is presented[29] by Gunnar Wrobel[30]. 29. http://log.onthebrink.de/2008/05/using-puppet-on-gentoo.html 30. wrobel@gentoo.org Small system distributions: Joshua Saddler[31] needs a binary Linux distribution suitable for his old laptop, so he[32] tests some[33] distro= s that are[34] explicitly labeled[35] for weaker systems[36]. 31. nightmorph@gentoo.org 32. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nightmorph/2008/05/25/alternati= ve_distros_and_tools 33. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nightmorph/2008/05/26/alternati= ve_distros_linux_mint 34. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nightmorph/2008/06/03/alternati= ve_distros_puppy_linux_and_anti 35. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nightmorph/2008/06/05/alternati= ve_distros_deli_linux 36. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nightmorph/2008/06/20/alternati= ve_distros_alternative_desktops Gentoo documentation: Finding information on how to develop for Gentoo ca= n be hard as it is scattered around the place. Joshua Nichols[37] has an overview[38] for you. 37. nichoj@gentoo.org 38. http://technicalpickles.com/posts/more-gentoo-development-links-tha= n-you-probably-need Release hold-up: Tobias Klausmann[39] offers some commentary on why the n= ext release has been held up[40] for so long. 39. klausman@gentoo.org 40. http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2008/06/07/index.html#e2008-06-07T20_4= 1_27.txt Web 3.0? Revisited: Rob Cakebread[41] writes the follow-up[42] to his article[43] on the semantic web already presented here. 41. pythonhead@gentoo.org 42. http://rob.cakebread.info/blog/?p=3D7 43. http://rob.cakebread.info/blog/?p=3D3 Accessing the Google Gentoo Calendar: Christian Faulhammer[44] tells all people with the appropriate access level how to add/modifiy[45] entries t= o the Google Gentoo Calendar via Sunbird/Lightning. 44. opfer@gentoo.org 45. http://www.faulhammer.org/index.php?option=3Dcom_content&task=3Dvie= w&id=3D248 What Gentoo gives back: Hanno Boeck[46] is proud of his constributions[47= ] to X.org, so see how much we give back to other projects. 46. hanno@gentoo.org 47. http://www.hboeck.de/archives/632-0.01-%25-of-Xorg.html Gentoo in the News ------------------ Two Ruby on Rails vendors partner together; one (Engine Yard) finds Gento= o to be a good fit[48]. Engine Yard has been previously featured[49] in the newsletter. 48. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3749341/Developers= +Team+Up+on+Ruby+Framework.htm 49. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061113-newsletter.xml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 5. Tips and Tricks =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Measuring and reducing power usage ---------------------------------- For those who want to reduce energy use, increase their laptop time on battery, and those who simply want to save money, this edition of Tips an= d Tricks is for you. Let's use PowerTop[50] to reduce the amount of power y= our computer draws. 50. http://www.linuxpowertop.org/ The first step is to install PowerTop and run it: +------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----+ | Code Listing 5.1 = | | Using powertop = | +------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----+ | # emerge powertop = | | # powertop = | +------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----+ PowerTop will likely tell you that you need a few options enabled in your kernel, if they aren't enabled already. To prepare your kernel for PowerTop you need to go into "Processor type a= nd features". Set "Tickless System" to be built into the kernel. If you do n= ot have this option you can continue without setting it. Next, go to the mai= n menu and go into "Kernel hacking". Set "Kernel debugging" to be built in, then select "Collect kernel timer statistics". If you are doing this on a laptop, enable battery support in "Power management options" and "ACPI Support". Finally, enable "CPU frequency translation statistics" under "P= ower management options" and "CPU Frequency scaling". Reboot into your reconfigured kernel and run powertop again. You should s= ee a list of applications are kernel components "waking the system up". All yo= u need to know is that fewer wakeups means your system consumes less power. PowerTop gives you a few tips at the bottom. The first one is to tell the kernel to disable USB until you need it. Thi= s option is under "Device Drivers", in "USB Support". It is probably called "USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup". The second one is to increase the dirty write back interval to 15 seconds= -- or an interval of your choosing). This will help reduce disk wakeups. +------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----+ | Code Listing 5.2 = | | Reducing disk wakeups = | +------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----+ | # echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs = | +------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----+ There are other things you can do to reduce you power usage. For example,= if you happen to browse many CPU-intensive Flash sites, you can install the FlashBlock[51] add-on for Firefox and choose to view Flash upon your requ= est only. 51. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ Visit LessWatts[52] for more good ways to save power. 52. http://www.lesswatts.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 6. Gentoo developer moves =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Summary ------- Gentoo is made up of 251 active developers, of which 40 are currently awa= y. Gentoo has recruited a total of 647 developers since its inception. Moves ----- The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: Note: The number is higher than usual because several inactive developers were retired as per Gentoo policy. This operation is performed on a regul= ar basis by the Undertakers[53] project. 53. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/undertakers/index.xml * Kyle England (kengland) * Elias Pipping (pipping) * Andrew Ross (aross) * Bret Curtis (psi29a) * Martin Jackson (mjolnir) * Julien Allanos (dju) * Lars Weiler (pylon) * Duncan Coutts (dcoutts) * Michael Schonbeck (thoand) * Philippe Trottier (tchiwam) * Dominik Stadler (centic) * Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl) * Carlos Silva (r3pek) * Andrej Kacian (ticho) * Alexander Gabert (pappy) * Alex Howells (astinus) Adds ---- The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: * Andrey Kislyuk (weaver) joined the Science team * Peter Alfredsen (loki_val) joined the Sound, Fonts, and GCC teams * Matt Fleming (mjf) joined the Security team * Friedrich Oslage (bluebird) joined the Sparc team Changes ------- The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project= : * Ryan Hill (dirtyepic) left the Fonts team * Peter Volkov (pva) joined the Fonts team =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 7. Portage =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Summary ------- This section summarizes the current state of the Portage tree. General Statistics Architectures 15 Categories 151 Packages 12777 ebuilds 24727 Keyword Distribution Architecture StableTestingTotal% Packages alpha 3635476411132.17% amd64 709740431114087.19% arm 159697169313.25% hppa 2689550323925.35% ia64 3206597380329.76% m68k 492205124.01% mips 1032753178513.97% ppc 63292921925072.40% ppc64 3473648412132.25% s390 12024812509.78% sh 141354146711.48% sparc 48221316613848.04% sparc-fbsd 03553552.78% x86 937132071257898.44% x86-fbsd 02638263820.65% Figure 7.1: Package distribution by keyword http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/keywords.png The following section lists packages that have either been moved or added= to the tree. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners[54] and various developers. 54. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/ Removals: --------- Package: Removal date: Contact: media-sound/gtkguitune 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] media-sound/playspc_gtk 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] media-sound/yconsole 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] media-gfx/iv 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] media-video/gqcam 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] sys-apps/systrace 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] net-fs/coda-kernel 27 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] app-arch/debhelper 29 May 2008 Yuri Vasilevski[56] dev-lang/ezm3 31 May 2008 Mike Frysinger[57] dev-util/cvsup 31 May 2008 Mike Frysinger[57] media-fonts/fireflysung 31 May 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] app-portage/portage-manpages 31 May 2008 Mike Frysinger[57] media-plugins/libao-pulse 31 May 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] gnome-extra/gnome2-user-docs 01 Jun 2008 R=C3=A8mi Cardona[59] 55. drac@gentoo.org 56. yvasilev@gentoo.org 57. vapier@gentoo.org 58. loki_val@gentoo.org 59. remi@gentoo.org Package: Removal date: Contact: dev-util/larch 03 Jun 2008 Michael Sterrett[60] app-text/docbook-to-man 04 Jun 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] games-fps/americas-army 05 Jun 2008 Chris Gianelloni[61] gnome-base/control-center 06 Jun 2008 R=C3=A8mi Cardona[59] gnome-extra/shermans-aquarium 08 Jun 2008 Gilles Dartiguelongue[62] net-libs/webkitgtk 08 Jun 2008 Markus Ullmann[63] 58. loki_val@gentoo.org 59. remi@gentoo.org 60. mr_bones_@gentoo.org 61. wolf31o2@gentoo.org 62. eva@gentoo.org 63. jokey@gentoo.org Package: Removal date: Contact: x11-plugins/gai-pager 09 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] x11-plugins/gai-pal 09 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] x11-libs/gai 09 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] sys-process/daemontools-scripts 09 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] dev-util/rhide 14 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] sys-cluster/wulfstat 14 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] sys-cluster/xmlsysd 14 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] net-dialup/linesrv 15 Jun 2008 Alin N=C4=83stac[64] net-dialup/mclient 15 Jun 2008 Alin N=C4=83stac[64] net-dialup/mserver 15 Jun 2008 Alin N=C4=83stac[64] net-dialup/xlc 15 Jun 2008 Alin N=C4=83stac[64] 55. drac@gentoo.org 64. mrness@gentoo.org Package: Removal date: Contact: app-pda/syncekonnector 19 Jun 2008 Jeremy Olexa[65] dev-util/lincvs 19 Jun 2008 Mike Pagano[66] x11-wm/aquamarine 21 Jun 2008 Michael Sterrett[60] x11-wm/heliodor 21 Jun 2008 Michael Sterrett[60] kde-base/ksync 22 Jun 2008 Tobias Heinlein[67] xfce-extra/xfce4-icon-theme 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-extra/ristretto 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-extra/terminal 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-extra/xfburn 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-extra/mousepad 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-base/xfprint 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] xfce-base/orage 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] 55. drac@gentoo.org 60. mr_bones_@gentoo.org 65. darkside@gentoo.org 66. mpagano@gentoo.org 67. keytoaster@gentoo.org Additions: ---------- Package: Addition date: Contact: media-fonts/tibetan-machine-font[68] 26 May 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] sci-biology/amos[69] 26 May 2008 Andrey Kislyuk[70] media-fonts/thaifonts-scalable[71] 28 May 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] app-i18n/unicode-data[72] 28 May 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] media-libs/raul[73] 29 May 2008 Alexis Ballier[74] x11-libs/flowcanvas[75] 29 May 2008 Alexis Ballier[74] media-sound/patchage[76] 29 May 2008 Alexis Ballier[74] app-emulation/fuse-utils[77] 30 May 2008 Jeremy Olexa[65] x11-terms/sakura[78] 30 May 2008 Josh Glover[79] media-fonts/opendesktop-fonts[80] 30 May 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] dev-tex/translator[81] 30 May 2008 Alexis Ballier[74] media-fonts/cardo[82] 30 May 2008 Sven Wegener[83] media-sound/qtscrobbler[84] 31 May 2008 Ben de Groot[85] net-misc/openssh-blacklist[86] 31 May 2008 Mike Frysinger[57] www-client/ck4up[87] 31 May 2008 Thilo Bangert[88] dev-scheme/ikarus[89] 31 May 2008 Panagiotis Christopou= los[90] x11-misc/lsw[91] 31 May 2008 Santiago M. Mola[92] dev-scheme/stalin[93] 01 Jun 2008 Panagiotis Christopou= los[90] x11-terms/evilvte[94] 01 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] dev-perl/Font-TTF[95] 01 Jun 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs[96] 01 Jun 2008 R=C3=A8mi Cardona[59] 55. drac@gentoo.org 57. vapier@gentoo.org 58. loki_val@gentoo.org 59. remi@gentoo.org 65. darkside@gentoo.org 68. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/tibetan-machine-font 69. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-biology/amos 70. weaver@gentoo.org 71. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/thaifonts-scalable 72. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-i18n/unicode-data 73. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-libs/raul 74. aballier@gentoo.org 75. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-libs/flowcanvas 76. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/patchage 77. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/fuse-utils 78. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-terms/sakura 79. jmglov@gentoo.org 80. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/opendesktop-fonts 81. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-tex/translator 82. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/cardo 83. swegener@gentoo.org 84. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/qtscrobbler 85. yngwin@gentoo.org 86. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/openssh-blacklist 87. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/ck4up 88. bangert@gentoo.org 89. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-scheme/ikarus 90. pchrist@gentoo.org 91. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-misc/lsw 92. coldwind@gentoo.org 93. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-scheme/stalin 94. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-terms/evilvte 95. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-perl/Font-TTF 96. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs Package: Addition date: Contact: games-util/wiiload[97] 02 Jun 2008 Mike Frysinger[57] app-text/docbook-to-man[98] 02 Jun 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] dev-scheme/sisc[99] 02 Jun 2008 Panagiotis Christopo= ulos[90] app-editors/juffed[100] 04 Jun 2008 Ben de Groot[85] www-client/arora[101] 04 Jun 2008 Ben de Groot[85] sci-mathematics/dataplot[102] 04 Jun 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[103= ] media-gfx/dpic[104] 04 Jun 2008 Alexis Ballier[74] dev-tex/dot2texi[105] 04 Jun 2008 Alexis Ballier[74] app-portage/gpytage[106] 05 Jun 2008 Kenneth Prugh[107] media-fonts/pothana2k[108] 05 Jun 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] gnome-base/gnome-control-center[109] 05 Jun 2008 R=C3=A8mi Cardona[59= ] media-fonts/ekushey-bangla-fonts[110] 05 Jun 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] x11-misc/google-gadgets[111] 06 Jun 2008 Peter Alfredsen[58] sci-physics/clhep[112] 06 Jun 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[103= ] media-gfx/dawn[113] 06 Jun 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[103= ] app-cdr/burn-cd[114] 06 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] app-cdr/iat[115] 06 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] app-cdr/binflash[116] 06 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] dev-python/jinja[117] 07 Jun 2008 Tiziano M=C3=BCller[= 118] dev-python/sphinx[119] 07 Jun 2008 Tiziano M=C3=BCller[= 118] app-cdr/cdcover[120] 07 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] gnome-extra/file-browser-applet[121] 08 Jun 2008 Serkan Kaba[122] net-libs/webkitgtk[123] 08 Jun 2008 Markus Ullmann[63] www-client/midori[124] 08 Jun 2008 Markus Ullmann[63] media-sound/christine[125] 08 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] net-libs/webkit-gtk[126] 08 Jun 2008 Markus Ullmann[63] media-video/qdvdauthor-templates[127] 08 Jun 2008 Stefan Briesenick[12= 8] 55. drac@gentoo.org 57. vapier@gentoo.org 58. loki_val@gentoo.org 59. remi@gentoo.org 63. jokey@gentoo.org 74. aballier@gentoo.org 85. yngwin@gentoo.org 90. pchrist@gentoo.org 97. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/games-util/wiiload 98. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-text/docbook-to-man 99. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-scheme/sisc 100. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-editors/juffed 101. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/arora 102. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-mathematics/dataplot 103. bicatali@gentoo.org 104. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-gfx/dpic 105. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-tex/dot2texi 106. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-portage/gpytage 107. ken69267@gentoo.org 108. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/pothana2k 109. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gnome-base/gnome-control-center 110. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/ekushey-bangla-fonts 111. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-misc/google-gadgets 112. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-physics/clhep 113. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-gfx/dawn 114. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/burn-cd 115. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/iat 116. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/binflash 117. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-python/jinja 118. dev-zero@gentoo.org 119. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-python/sphinx 120. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/cdcover 121. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gnome-extra/file-browser-applet 122. serkan@gentoo.org 123. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/webkitgtk 124. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/midori 125. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/christine 126. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/webkit-gtk 127. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-video/qdvdauthor-templates 128. sbriesen@gentoo.org Package: Addition date: Contact: x11-libs/libpciaccess[129] 10 Jun 2008 Donnie Berkholz[130] x11-proto/dri2proto[131] 10 Jun 2008 Donnie Berkholz[130] net-libs/udns[132] 10 Jun 2008 Krzysiek Pawlik[133] sys-apps/fakechroot[134] 10 Jun 2008 Michael Januszewski[135] games-simulation/micropolis[136] 11 Jun 2008 Hanno Boeck[46] app-cdr/uif2iso[137] 12 Jun 2008 Diego Petten=C3=B2[138] app-doc/pms[139] 13 Jun 2008 Ingmar Vanhassel[140] media-video/subtitlecomposer[141] 14 Jun 2008 Ben de Groot[85] media-sound/xineadump[142] 14 Jun 2008 Ben de Groot[85] net-im/kouchat[143] 14 Jun 2008 Serkan Kaba[122] net-mail/signature[144] 15 Jun 2008 Tobias Scherbaum[145] 46. hanno@gentoo.org 85. yngwin@gentoo.org 122. serkan@gentoo.org 129. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-libs/libpciaccess 130. dberkholz@gentoo.org 131. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-proto/dri2proto 132. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/udns 133. nelchael@gentoo.org 134. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/fakechroot 135. spock@gentoo.org 136. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/games-simulation/micropolis 137. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/uif2iso 138. flameeyes@gentoo.org 139. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-doc/pms 140. ingmar@gentoo.org 141. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-video/subtitlecomposer 142. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/xineadump 143. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-im/kouchat 144. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-mail/signature 145. dertobi123@gentoo.org Package: Addition date: Contact: dev-db/pg_top[146] 16 Jun 2008 C=C3=A9dric Krier[147] dev-ruby/eventmachine[148] 16 Jun 2008 Robin H. Johnson[149] dev-ruby/rack[150] 16 Jun 2008 Robin H. Johnson[149] www-servers/thin[151] 16 Jun 2008 Robin H. Johnson[149] x11-misc/gdevilspie[152] 16 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] kde-misc/kio_perldoc[153] 16 Jun 2008 Ingmar Vanhassel[140] sys-apps/man-pages-posix[154] 17 Jun 2008 Mike Frysinger[57] app-cdr/cddetect[155] 17 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] dev-libs/libev[156] 17 Jun 2008 Matsuu Takuto[157] media-libs/opencv[158] 18 Jun 2008 Josh Glover[79] dev-python/PyQrcodec[159] 18 Jun 2008 Josh Glover[79] media-plugins/vdr-streamdev[160] 18 Jun 2008 Matthias Schwarzott[161] dev-util/smem[162] 18 Jun 2008 Diego Petten=C3=B2[138] net-misc/openrdate[163] 18 Jun 2008 Robin H. Johnson[149] app-doc/linuxfromscratch[164] 19 Jun 2008 Ryan Hill[165] app-emacs/edit-list[166] 19 Jun 2008 Ulrich M=C3=BCller[167] app-emacs/dropdown-list[168] 19 Jun 2008 Ulrich M=C3=BCller[167] app-emacs/yasnippet[169] 19 Jun 2008 Ulrich M=C3=BCller[167] app-crypt/openvpn-blacklist[170] 19 Jun 2008 Hanno Boeck[46] sci-biology/kalign[171] 20 Jun 2008 Andrey Kislyuk[70] x11-themes/echo-icon-theme[172] 20 Jun 2008 Doug Goldstein[173] net-misc/ntpclient[174] 22 Jun 2008 Ned Ludd[175] media-gfx/ristretto[176] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] x11-terms/terminal[177] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] app-cdr/xfburn[178] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] x11-themes/xfce4-icon-theme[179] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] x11-themes/xfwm4-themes[180] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] net-print/xfprint[181] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] app-office/orage[182] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] app-editors/mousepad[183] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools[184] 22 Jun 2008 Samuli Suominen[55] 46. hanno@gentoo.org 55. drac@gentoo.org 57. vapier@gentoo.org 70. weaver@gentoo.org 79. jmglov@gentoo.org 138. flameeyes@gentoo.org 140. ingmar@gentoo.org 146. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-db/pg_top 147. cedk@gentoo.org 148. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/eventmachine 149. robbat2@gentoo.org 150. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/rack 151. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-servers/thin 152. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-misc/gdevilspie 153. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-misc/kio_perldoc 154. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/man-pages-posix 155. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/cddetect 156. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-libs/libev 157. matsuu@gentoo.org 158. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-libs/opencv 159. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-python/PyQrcodec 160. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-plugins/vdr-streamdev 161. zzam@gentoo.org 162. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-util/smem 163. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/openrdate 164. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-doc/linuxfromscratch 165. dirtyepic@gentoo.org 166. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/edit-list 167. ulm@gentoo.org 168. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/dropdown-list 169. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/yasnippet 170. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-crypt/openvpn-blacklist 171. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-biology/kalign 172. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-themes/echo-icon-theme 173. cardoe@gentoo.org 174. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/ntpclient 175. solar@gentoo.org 176. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-gfx/ristretto 177. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-terms/terminal 178. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/xfburn 179. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-themes/xfce4-icon-theme 180. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-themes/xfwm4-themes 181. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-print/xfprint 182. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-office/orage 183. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-editors/mousepad 184. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 8. 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Rank Developer/Team Bug Count 0 Others 1252 1 Gentoo's Team for Core System packages 80 2 Gentoo Games 79 3 Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages 50 4 Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team 47 5 Jeremy Olexa 38 6 Gentoo Sound Team 37 7 Net-Mail Packages 37 8 Robin Johnson 36 9 Gentoo KDE team 36 Figure 8.1: Bug closed rankings http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/closed.png Assigned bug ranking -------------------- The developers and teams who have been assigned the most bugs during this period are as follows. Rank Developer/Team Bug Count 0 Others 1026 1 Default Assignee for New Packages 104 2 Gentoo KDE team 62 3 Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team 61 4 Gentoo Games 43 5 Gentoo's Team for Core System packages 38 6 Gentoo Security 36 7 Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages 34 8 Gentoo X packagers 33 9 Portage team 32 Figure 8.1: Bugs assigned rankings http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080630/opened.png =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 9. 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