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Gentoo Monthly Newsletter #2
| From: | Anant Narayanan <anant-AT-gentoo.org> | |
| To: | gentoo-gmn-AT-lists.gentoo.org | |
| Subject: | [gentoo-gmn] Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 18 February 2008 | |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:02:38 +0000 | |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gentoo Monthly Newsletter http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/ This is the second issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, for January 2008 - February 2008. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =============== 1. Introduction =============== This month in the GMN --------------------- Welcome to the second issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter. To begin with, we would like to thank the entire community for the overwhelming response to the GMN's inaugural issue. We received a lot of encouraging feedback and hope that you will continue to write in. Remember, the GMN is what its readers want it to be - please see the section on how you can get involved - at the end of the newsletter for more information. This month's issue implements some of the interesting suggestions we received from our readers. The security statistics have been removed, since it seemed to add a lot of clutter with little value-addition to the newsletter. You can still monitor GLSAs in a variety of ways though - by using glsa-check (part of gentoolkit[1]), by subscribing to the feed on the GLSA page[2] or the gentoo-announcemailing list[3]. 1. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-portage/gentoolkit 2. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/ 3. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Graphical bugzilla and package statistics is another feature we implemented, don't forget to see the cool graphs and charts! In tune with the feature on our front page announcements, you can now discuss particular issues of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter in the forum. Discuss this newsletter[4]! 4. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4871969.html We hope you enjoy reading this edition of the GMN. ============== 2. Gentoo News ============== Gentoo Trustee Elections ------------------------ The Gentoo Trustee elections are currently in progress. After nearly a month of nominations, we are left with 8 candidates for the posts. The polls will be open until February 28. Everybody who has ever voted in a trustee election or has been a Gentoo developer for the last 365 days (or more, from the date of close of election poll) is eligible to vote. You can get more information on the election and on each candidate's manifesto on the trustee election page[5]. 5. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/foundation-200802... Kernel security exploits: Upgrade ASAP -------------------------------------- Two major security flaws in the Linux kernel were reported last weekend. Both flaws have the same impact (root access for local users) and both exist within the vmsplice() system call, which was added to the kernel in 2.6.17. There is no configuration option to exclude vmsplice() so everyone is vulnerable. One of the security issues existed for the entire lifetime of vmsplice(), so any kernel version from 2.6.17 onwards is vulnerable. This was fixed in 2.6.24.2, 2.6.23.16 and 2.6.22.18. It has been assigned the vulnerability identifier of CVE-2008-0600[6]. 6. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0600 The other security issue first appeared in 2.6.23. It was fixed in 2.6.23.15 and 2.6.24.1. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2008-0009[7] and CVE-2008-0010[8]. 7. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0009 8. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0010 gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r8 and gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r2 were added to the tree Monday and include fixes for both issues. Install the latest gentoo-sources[9] as quickly as possible. 9. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources The full announcement can be found here[10]. 10. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080213-vmsplice.xml KDE 4.0.1 in the tree --------------------- Gentoo's KDE herd is happy to inform you that they've just committed KDE 4.0.1 to the Portage tree. KDE 4.0.1 is the first maintenance release and fixes many issues of the initial release. Among those changes are stability bugfixes and performance improvements for Konqueror[11] and its Flash integration as well as its JavaScript support. KWin[12] has seen improvements with respect to compositing and error handling. Almost all other KDE modules have been worked on extensively as well. 11. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-base/konqueror 12. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-base/kwin The full announcement can be found here[13]. 13. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20080210-kde-4.0.1.xml Council Meeting Summary ----------------------- The Gentoo Council[14] held its monthly meeting on 14 February, 2008. The items put up for discussion were: 14. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ * GLEP 46[15] (Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml): This GLEP was approved, however the proposer is required to explain why the protocols that may be used were restricted to HTTP and HTTPS only - before the GLEP is finalized. * EAPI=1 (Where is the specification?): The general agreement was that any new EAPIs should not be added until EAPI=0 is fully approved. However, there wasn't any consensus on changing anything about EAPI=1. Mark Loeser[16] agreed to work on PMS for EAPI=0, and will provide an update at the next meeting. 15. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0046.html 16. halcy0n@gentoo.org Some items were rolled over from the previous meeting. GLEPs 54[17] and 55[18] were not resubmitted to the council for discussion. 17. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0054.html 18. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0055.html * Code of Conduct Enforcement: Donnie Berkholz[19] posted a simple suggestion on the council mailing list. The council supported the implementation and Donnie will get things going. * Document of being an active developer: No updates. * Slacker archs: No updates. 19. dberkholz@gentoo.org Coming Up --------- * FOSDEM[20]: February 23-24. One of the best community events of Europe. Although there isn't going to be an official Gentoo presence at the event, you can look forward to meeting several Gentoo developers and users at the event. * Bugday[21]: Looking for a way to help out Gentoo without investing a lot of time? Join us on March 01 for our monthly bugday, and help us squash some bugs[22]. * Chemnitzer Linux-Tage[23]: March 01-02. Several European Gentoo developers and users are planning[23] to attend, so if you're going to be around Chemnitz at the time, do drop in! * Council Meeting[14]: 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 March 13, and everyone is welcome to participate - #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net at 2000UTC. * PyCon[24]: March 13-17. There's a Birds Of a Feather (BoF) session planned for everyone interested in Gentoo at the conference. If you're interested, don't forget to drop a note in the forums[25]. 14. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ 20. http://www.fosdem.org/2008/ 21. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/bugday/index.xml 22. http://bugday.gentoo.org/ 23. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/events/clt2008-germany/ 24. http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ 25. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-659597.html ========================= 3. Heard in the Community ========================= The Emacs Team -------------- Introduction: Some people wonder how maintaining a bunch of packages works in Gentoo and how they can help as users. Every team has its own style of work-flow but some common schemes are present in every team. This month, we take a look at how the Emacs[26] team functions. 26. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/ Who we are and what we do: The Emacs team consists of two developers, Ulrich M?27] and Christian Faulhammer[28], who take care of all packages in the app-emacs category[29] besides the GNU Emacs editor and several micro Emacsen. Additionally, we often take care of Emacs support (mostly enabled by USE=emacs) for packages maintained by other teams. 27. ulm@gentoo.org 28. opfer@gentoo.org 29. http://packages.gentoo.org/category/app-emacs How we work: There are two ways of working: Act or react. Reaction happens on user requests that come in by bug reports (the preferred way), IRC or by e-mail. Acting happens in mail exchange or discussion on IRC of the team members. We discuss problems we have had or ones that might occur and try to find optimum solutions to them. Optimal in this case means leaving as few people as possible with problems. This often means a trade-off between features and backwards compatibility. Bug reports are handled by any of the members. Whoever reacts first is responsible for the bug, unless someone else has a superior solution. New packages that are experimental are first tried out in the Emacs overlay[30], which is connected to a Wiki system where we store temporary information and progress reports. For example, we collect information about packages that have broken or bad Emacs support in the Wiki. Whenever one of us finds time, the problem is fixed and the entry deleted from the Wiki. Alternatively, if the problem could not be fixed, additional information is added to the entry so the next person can start off where this one left. The Wiki also stores information like which packages need a newer version/revision in the tree (including a target date) and test plans for many packages. 30. http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/ Stabilization is handled through the bug tracker[31]. A maintainer files a new bug which says "stable app-emacs/xyz-1.0" in the summary and has all relevant architecture teams (such as x86, amd or sparc) in the CC field. The architecture team then tests the package (with the help of the collected test plans) and marks it stable. 31. http://bugs.gentoo.org/ How users can help: The easiest way to help is to file a bug report if you spot a problem. Even minor ones are important for overall quality, such as if there is a new version of a program/package that could not to be found in Portage. Please give maintainers at-least a few days time after release though! If you are not sure about a problem, try to investigate a bit. Don't be afraid of your request being called "dumb", we actually prefer bugs that can be closed as INVALID (or something similar) as compared to real issues that may not be reported at all. Be sure to check for duplicate bugs beforehand! Users are welcome to join our IRC channel #gentoo-lisp on Freenode[32] where you can get support for all flavours of Lisp (including Emacs Lisp). IRC is a great way to directly contact developers. Email[33] is a good communication channel too, but not perfect, as emails may get lost. Emails are also forgotten more easily than bug reports. 32. http://freenode.net/ 33. emacs@gentoo.org Working on the overlay is another way to contribute, but we won't give away commit access too easily as a simple change is potential for a lot of harm. Trusted users do gain commit access after proving themselves. Some hints on how GNU Emacs on Gentoo works can be found in the maintainers guide[34]. 34. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/emacs.xml Gentoo tops BIND benchmarks --------------------------- The Internet Systems Consortium[35] conducted a benchmark to test various operating systems for their suitability to run BIND 9[36]. Amongst all the operating systems tested, Gentoo Linux running on kernel version 2.6.20.7 topped the charts, processing 93,000 queries per second! Fedora Core came second with 87,000 queries/second, followed by FreeBSD-7 (84,000 queries/second). 35. http://www.isc.org/ 36. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-dns/bind For more information, check out ISC's page on the benchmark[37]. 37. http://new.isc.org/proj/dnsperf/OStest.html Planet Gentoo ------------- How to contact developers Sometimes people are confused how they can get in touch with a developer, Luca Barbato[38] gives us some hints[39] on how you can meet the person you need. 38. lu_zero@gentoo.org 39. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/lu_zero/2008/01/21/ho... Voicing a user Joshua Jackson[40] gives user Matthew Summers the opportunity[41] to raise some points about Daniel Robbins' offer. 40. tsunam@gentoo.org 41. http://tsunam.org/2008/01/21/guest-post-matthew-summers/ Gentoo people at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage Tobias Scherbaum[42] announces the presence[43] of Gentoo developers and users during the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage in Germany. The developer meeting will be on 1st March 2008, but everyone is invited to say hello. 42. dertobi123@gentoo.org 43. http://blog.scherbaum.info/2008/01/22/developer-meeting-a... Status of GCC 4.3 In a short note[44], Ryan Hill[45] informs us of the status of GCC 4.3 in Gentoo. 44. http://psykil.livejournal.com/321090.html 45. dirtyepic@gentoo.org Summer of Code ideas Even if it is only spring, Diego Petten?] and Hans de Graaff[47] think about what could be feasible[48]ideas[49] for this year's Google Summer of Code. 46. flameeyes@gentoo.org 47. graaff@gentoo.org 48. http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/02/02/ideas-for-go... 49. http://moving-innovations.com/blog/articles/2008/02/02/sp... Xen applied Michael Marineau[50] describes how Xen and Gentoo are used[51] in the Open Source Labs[52]. 50. marineam@gentoo.org 51. http://mike.marineau.org/blog/gentoo/2008-02-02-gentoo-os... 52. http://www.osuosl.org/ MIPS back to experimental Upon other release related things, Stuart Longland[53] announces that MIPS is now an experimental[54] architecture again, meaning that there will be no more stable KEYWORDS, just ~mips. This is due to lack of manpower. 53. redhatter@gentoo.org 54. http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/02/03/gentoo... Internal libraries and how to fix it Diego Petten?]'s current crusade is to kill internal copies of libraries. He describes[55] why they are harmful, along with an extended example[56] on how to fix the problem. 46. flameeyes@gentoo.org 55. http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/01/21/and-what-abo... 56. http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/02/04/a-case-study... How to improve Gentoo's PR If you've noticed our front page lately, you'll see that Donnie Berkholz[19] has been doing a good job of regularly updating it. He now gives us the details[57] of recent changes in the PR group[58]. 19. dberkholz@gentoo.org 57. http://spyderous.livejournal.com/95223.html 58. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/ User relations A meeting of our user-relations[59] group has been summarized[60] by Joshua Jackson[40] 40. tsunam@gentoo.org 59. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/ 60. http://tsunam.org/2008/02/13/user-relations-minutes/ Gentoo on Loongson The Chinese made Loongson[61] processor is MIPS based, and Stuart Longland[53]announces[62] the availability of some more experimental MIPS stages of Gentoo for this platform. 53. redhatter@gentoo.org 61. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson 62. http://stuartl.longlandclan.yi.org/blog/2008/02/14/gentoo... ================== 4. Tips and Tricks ================== Screenie -------- Want to organize your command line screen session or sessions better? Want to have a separate screen session for every task that you do? Want something that will organize you in general? This GMN has the perfect tip for you. It is a tiny script called screenie. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.1 | | Getting Screenie | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | $ emerge screenie | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Start by running it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.2 | | Launching screenie | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | $ screenie | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ You should see the following: +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.3 | | Adding a job | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | SCREENIE - terminal screen-session handler | | written by Marc O. Gloor <mgloor&fhzh.ch> | | | | a) add job | | q) quit | | | | select: | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Lets add a job called "Systems". Once you hit a, enter the name. Hit enter unless you know the process id of existing screen sessions. Lets add a second job called "Email". Now you should see: +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.4 | | Listing jobs | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | SCREENIE - terminal screen-session handler | | written by Marc O. Gloor <mgloor&fhzh.ch> | | | | 1) 15468.Systems | | 2) 15504.Email | | | | a) add job | | q) quit | | | | select: | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ You now have two screen sessions that you can go into and out of. Select one of the sessions. You are now inside of screen where you can do whatever you usually do. Note: See the tips and tricks[63] describing screen. 63. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030714-newsletter.xml... To go to another screen session, press CTRL+a+d (or however you usually exit your screen sessions). You should be back to the screenie menu and ready to choose to go to another screen session. One use of screenie might be to have a screen session for every task and for every machine you have access to making multi-tasking much more organized. This should also make it much easier to start working again after a long break. ========================= 5. Gentoo developer moves ========================= Summary ------- Gentoo is made up of 277 active developers, of which 47 are currently away. Gentoo has recruited a total of 630 developers since its inception. Moves ----- The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: * none this month Adds ---- The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: * Ben de Groot (yngwin): Multimedia Changes ------- The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project: * Mark Loeser (halcy0n) joined the cpp herd * Michael Januszewski (spock) joined the sci and sci-physics herd * Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) joined the kde herd * Ryan Hill (dirtyepic) joined the mips team ========== 6. Portage ========== Summary ------- This section summarizes the current state of the portage tree. General Statistics Architectures 15 Categories 151 Packages 12381 ebuilds 24076 Keyword Distribution Architecture Stable Testing Total% Packages alpha 3482 558 4040 32.63% amd64 6598 3935 10533 85.07% arm 1588 67 1655 13.37% hppa 2259 554 2813 22.72% ia64 3118 626 3744 30.24% m68k 487 9 496 4.01% mips 1295 476 1771 14.30% ppc 6154 2774 8928 72.11% ppc64 3305 706 4011 32.40% s390 1194 43 1237 9.99% sh 1407 38 1445 11.67% sparc 4680 1332 6012 48.56% sparc-fbsd 0 304 304 2.46% x86 9171 3041 12212 98.64% x86-fbsd 0 2431 2431 19.63% Figure 6.1: Package distribution by keyword http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080218/keywords.png The following section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners[64] and various developers. Most packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established. 64. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/ Removals: --------- Package: Removal date: Contact: dev-util/poseidonCE 25 Jan 2008 Alistair Bush[65] www-servers/jetty 26 Jan 2008 William Thomson[66] dev-java/jdbc2-oracle 26 Jan 2008 William Thomson[66] dev-java/jdbc3-oracle 26 Jan 2008 William Thomson[66] dev-java/quartz 26 Jan 2008 William Thomson[66] www-servers/jboss 26 Jan 2008 William Thomson[66] www-apache/mod_auth_external 27 Jan 2008 Benedikt Boehm[67] dev-lisp/emacs-cl-cvs 30 Jan 2008 Ulrich M?27] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtvdev 31 Jan 2008 Jeffrey Gardner[68] net-misc/wanpipe 31 Jan 2008 Stefan Knoblich[69] dev-java/aterm-java 03 Feb 2008 Petteri R?[70] sci-biology/generic-genome-browser 03 Feb 2008 Jeffrey Gardner[68] sys-kernel/ck-sources 03 Feb 2008 Michael Marineau[50] x11-themes/openbox-themes 03 Feb 2008 David Shakaryan[71] dev-ml/rpc 03 Feb 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] dev-ml/netclient 03 Feb 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] dev-ml/equeue 03 Feb 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] media-tv/nuppelvideo 04 Feb 2008 Patrick Kursawe[73] app-shells/csh 04 Feb 2008 Ra?rcel[74] x11-wm/kahakai 04 Feb 2008 David Shakaryan[71] sci-mathematics/pariguide 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-mathematics/ksimus-boolean 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-mathematics/ksimus-datarecorder 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-mathematics/ksimus-floatingpoint 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-mathematics/kalamaris 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-mathematics/ksimus 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] x11-apps/mkcfm 06 Feb 2008 Donnie Berkholz[19] kde-base/poxml 07 Feb 2008 Wulf Krueger[76] media-video/usb-pwc-re 13 Feb 2008 Patrick Kursawe[73] media-video/usb-pwcx 13 Feb 2008 Patrick Kursawe[73] net-p2p/eztorrent 14 Feb 2008 Ra?rcel[74] media-sound/gini 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-libs/libmustux 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] net-libs/dclibc 15 Feb 2008 Ra?rcel[74] media-plugins/streamtuner-live365 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-plugins/streamtuner-local 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-plugins/streamtuner-python 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-plugins/streamtuner-xiph 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] x11-misc/fluxconf 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-libs/libdts 15 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-libs/hermes 15 Feb 2008 Tristan Heaven[78] x11-themes/gaim-smileys 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/autoprofile 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/bangexec 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-assistant 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-encryption 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-extprefs 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-galago 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-hotkeys 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-latex 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-otr 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-rhythmbox 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-slashexec 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaim-xfire 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/gaimosd 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] x11-plugins/ignorance 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] app-accessibility/festival-gaim 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] net-im/gaim 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] net-im/gaim-blogger 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] net-im/gaim-bnet 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] net-im/gaim-meanwhile 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] net-im/gaim-snpp 16 Feb 2008 Olivier Cr?[79] dev-ruby/http-access2 17 Feb 2008 Diego Petten?] 19. dberkholz@gentoo.org 27. ulm@gentoo.org 46. flameeyes@gentoo.org 50. marineam@gentoo.org 65. ali_bush@gentoo.org 66. wltjr@gentoo.org 67. hollow@gentoo.org 68. je_fro@gentoo.org 69. stkn@gentoo.org 70. betelgeuse@gentoo.org 71. omp@gentoo.org 72. aballier@gentoo.org 73. phosphan@gentoo.org 74. armin76@gentoo.org 75. bicatali@gentoo.org 76. philantrop@gentoo.org 77. drac@gentoo.org 78. nyhm@gentoo.org 79. tester@gentoo.org Additions: ---------- Package: Addition date: Contact: dev-lang/falcon[80] 21 Jan 2008 David Shakaryan[71] media-gfx/rawstudio[81] 21 Jan 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-libs/gavl[82] 21 Jan 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-sound/jackbeat[83] 22 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar[84] 22 Jan 2008 Richard Brown[85] dev-ruby/color[86] 22 Jan 2008 Richard Brown[85] gnome-extra/gnome-device-manager[87] 23 Jan 2008 Saleem Abdulrasool[88] app-emacs/distel[89] 23 Jan 2008 Christian Faulhammer[28] app-emacs/icicles[90] 23 Jan 2008 Ulrich M?27] x11-misc/fme[91] 23 Jan 2008 Jim Ramsay[92] app-emacs/outline-magic[93] 23 Jan 2008 Christian Faulhammer[28] app-emacs/wikipedia-mode[94] 23 Jan 2008 Christian Faulhammer[28] app-emacs/template[95] 23 Jan 2008 Christian Faulhammer[28] sys-apps/i2c-tools[96] 23 Jan 2008 Mike Frysinger[97] media-gfx/gnome-raw-thumbnailer[98] 23 Jan 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] app-misc/sphinx[99] 24 Jan 2008 Caleb Tennis[100] dev-ruby/tclink[101] 24 Jan 2008 Caleb Tennis[100] app-admin/eselect-python[102] 24 Jan 2008 Ali Polatel[103] dev-libs/liboobs[104] 24 Jan 2008 Gilles Dartiguelongue[105] dev-java/cldc-api[106] 24 Jan 2008 Vlastimil Babka[107] games-fps/worldofpadman[108] 25 Jan 2008 Tristan Heaven[78] media-video/smplayer[109] 26 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] x11-themes/smplayer-themes[110] 26 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] dev-tex/pstplus[111] 26 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] dev-tex/crosstex[112] 26 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] media-sound/bristol[113] 27 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] media-sound/gigedit[114] 27 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] media-plugins/gmpc-avahi[115] 27 Jan 2008 Christoph Mende[116] dev-dotnet/podsleuth[117] 27 Jan 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] dev-dotnet/mono-zeroconf[118] 27 Jan 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] media-plugins/vdr-wapd[119] 27 Jan 2008 Joerg Bornkessel[120] dev-ml/ANSITerminal[121] 27 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] media-plugins/vdr-pcd[122] 27 Jan 2008 Joerg Bornkessel[120] media-plugins/vdr-chanman[123] 27 Jan 2008 Joerg Bornkessel[120] media-libs/stops[124] 27 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] media-sound/aeolus[125] 27 Jan 2008 Alexis Ballier[72] dev-java/svgsalamander[126] 28 Jan 2008 Petteri R?[70] dev-java/flyingsaucer[127] 28 Jan 2008 Petteri R?[70] dev-lang/rubinius[128] 29 Jan 2008 Caleb Tennis[100] dev-lisp/emacs-cl[129] 30 Jan 2008 Ulrich M?27] app-crypt/nistp224[130] 30 Jan 2008 Thilo Bangert[131] app-admin/srlog2[132] 30 Jan 2008 Thilo Bangert[131] x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtv[133] 31 Jan 2008 Jeffrey Gardner[68] dev-cpp/ctemplate[134] 31 Jan 2008 Tiziano M?135] dev-cpp/sparsehash[136] 31 Jan 2008 Tiziano M?135] media-video/hasciicam[137] 01 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] net-irc/conspire[138] 01 Feb 2008 Tony Vroon[139] sys-block/megacli[140] 01 Feb 2008 Wolfram Schlich[141] sys-block/lsiutil[142] 01 Feb 2008 Wolfram Schlich[141] media-plugins/vdr-filebrowser[143] 02 Feb 2008 Joerg Bornkessel[120] net-misc/ng-utils[144] 03 Feb 2008 Stefaan De Roeck[145] sys-block/cec[146] 03 Feb 2008 Caleb Tennis[100] media-plugins/vdr-vodcatcher[147] 03 Feb 2008 Joerg Bornkessel[120] games-util/etswitch[148] 04 Feb 2008 Samuli Suominen[77] sci-libs/metis[149] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/colamd[150] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/camd[151] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/ccolamd[152] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/cxsparse[153] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] dev-util/lockrun[154] 05 Feb 2008 Caleb Tennis[100] sci-libs/cholmod[155] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/btf[156] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/ldl[157] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/klu[158] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/csparse[159] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] sci-libs/suitesparse[160] 05 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] app-text/libspectre[161] 06 Feb 2008 Bo ?sted Andresen[162] dev-perl/ShipIt[163] 06 Feb 2008 Robin H. 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2008 Wolfram Schlich[141] sys-fs/shake[184] 10 Feb 2008 Bernard Cafarelli[185] app-emulation/systemsim-cell[186] 12 Feb 2008 Markus Rothe[187] dev-python/dap[188] 13 Feb 2008 Sebastien Fabbro[75] dev-python/pywebdav[189] 14 Feb 2008 C?ic Krier[190] sys-cluster/openais[191] 14 Feb 2008 Wolfram Schlich[141] app-editors/efte[192] 15 Feb 2008 David Shakaryan[71] games-rpg/nwmovies[193] 17 Feb 2008 Denis Dupeyron[194] net-print/adobeps[195] 17 Feb 2008 Stefan Briesenick[196] 27. ulm@gentoo.org 28. opfer@gentoo.org 67. hollow@gentoo.org 68. je_fro@gentoo.org 70. betelgeuse@gentoo.org 71. omp@gentoo.org 72. aballier@gentoo.org 75. bicatali@gentoo.org 77. drac@gentoo.org 78. nyhm@gentoo.org 80. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-lang/falcon 81. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-gfx/rawstudio 82. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-libs/gavl 83. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/jackbeat 84. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/archive-tar-m... 85. rbrown@gentoo.org 86. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/color 87. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gnome-extra/gnome-devi... 88. compnerd@gentoo.org 89. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/distel 90. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/icicles 91. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-misc/fme 92. lack@gentoo.org 93. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/outline-magic 94. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/wikipedia-mode 95. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emacs/template 96. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/i2c-tools 97. vapier@gentoo.org 98. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-gfx/gnome-raw-th... 99. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-misc/sphinx 100. caleb@gentoo.org 101. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/tclink 102. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-admin/eselect-python 103. hawking@gentoo.org 104. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-libs/liboobs 105. eva@gentoo.org 106. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-java/cldc-api 107. caster@gentoo.org 108. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/games-fps/worldofpadman 109. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-video/smplayer 110. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/x11-themes/smplayer-th... 111. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-tex/pstplus 112. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-tex/crosstex 113. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/bristol 114. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/gigedit 115. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-plugins/gmpc-avahi 116. angelos@gentoo.org 117. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-dotnet/podsleuth 118. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-dotnet/mono-zeroconf 119. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-plugins/vdr-wapd 120. hd_brummy@gentoo.org 121. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ml/ANSITerminal 122. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-plugins/vdr-pcd 123. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-plugins/vdr-chanman 124. 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http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-text/libspectre 162. zlin@gentoo.org 163. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-perl/ShipIt 164. robbat2@gentoo.org 165. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-physics/harminv 166. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-physics/meep 167. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-mobilephone/obex-d... 168. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-block/dellmgr 169. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-apache/mod_authn_pam 170. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-apache/mod_flvx 171. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-analyzer/openvas-l... 172. hanno@gentoo.org 173. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-analyzer/openvas-l... 174. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-analyzer/openvas-s... 175. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-analyzer/openvas-c... 176. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-analyzer/openvas-p... 177. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-analyzer/openvas 178. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-ruby/fastercsv 179. nichoj@gentoo.org 180. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-apache/mod_log_rotate 181. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-visualization/zhu3d 182. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-misc/nullmodem 183. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-block/megactl 184. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-fs/shake 185. voyageur@gentoo.org 186. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/systemsi... 187. corsair@gentoo.org 188. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-python/dap 189. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-python/pywebdav 190. cedk@gentoo.org 191. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-cluster/openais 192. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-editors/efte 193. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/games-rpg/nwmovies 194. calchan@gentoo.org 195. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-print/adobeps 196. sbriesen@gentoo.org Last Rites ---------- Package: Removal date: Contact: net-libs/dclibc[197] 15 Feb 2008 Ra?rcel[74] net-p2p/eztorrent[198] 16 Feb 2008 Ra?rcel[74] dev-java/jsx[199] 19 Feb 2008 Petteri R?[70] sys-apps/list[200] 19 Feb 2008 Stefan Schweizer[201] 70. betelgeuse@gentoo.org 74. armin76@gentoo.org 197. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/dclibc 198. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-p2p/eztorrent 199. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-java/jsx 200. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/list 201. genstef@gentoo.org =========== 7. Bugzilla =========== Statistics ---------- The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[202]) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. The following chart summarizes activity on Bugzilla between 18 January 2008 and 17 February 2008. Not fixed means bugs that were resolved as NEEDINFO, WONTFIX, CANTFIX, INVALID or UPSTREAM. 202. http://bugs.gentoo.org Bug Activity Number New 2746 Closed 1600 Not fixed 467 Marked Duplicate 374 Reopened 74 Figure 7.1: Bug activity split-up http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080218/activity.png Of the 10254 currently open bugs: 18 are labeled blocker, 101 are labeled critical, and 343 are labeled major. Closed bug ranking ------------------ The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are as follows. Rank Developer/Team Bug Count 1 Gentoo's Team for Core System Packages 73 2 Gentoo Games 65 3 Gentoo mips team 58 4 Gentoo KDE team 54 5 Gentoo for Mac OS X 47 6 Gentoo Security 42 7 Java team 42 8 Gentoo Gnome desktop team 42 0 Others 1176 Figure 7.1: Bug closed rankings http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080218/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 1 Default Assignee for New Packages 91 2 Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages 38 3 AMD64 project 36 4 Gentoo's Team for Core System packages 32 5 Retirement Admin 21 6 Python Gentoo Team 20 7 Perl Devs @ Gentoo 17 8 Stefaan De Roeck 15 0 Others 600 Figure 7.1: Bugs assigned rankings http://www.gentoo.org/images/gmn/20080218/opened.png =================== 8. Getting Involved =================== The GMN relies on volunteers and members of the community for content every month. 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