Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 10
[Posted March 10, 2004 by ris]
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1. Gentoo News
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Germany: LinuxTag Chemnitz
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Gentoo devs Pylon (Lars Weiler), Tuxus (Jan Seidel) and dertobi123 (Tobias
Scherbaum), plus Mr.Big (Jens Blaesche) from the German forum - four
activists manning the Gentoo booth, four architectures (x86, Mac, Sparc
and MIPS) on display! The Chemnitzer Linuxtag[1] on Saturday and Sunday 3
& 4 March was quite successful, with scores of fresh x86 and PPC LiveCDs
being handed out to visitors. The devs had prepared a shiny new flyer with
information about 2004.0 and new features in Portage, but the indisputable
main attraction at the Gentoo booth was a veritable Silicon Graphics O2
("visual workstation"), the first O2 ever to be displayed running Linux to
begin with, and this one even sporting a 2.6.1 kernel and a working
framebuffer, thanks to Tuxus.
Figure 1.1: Left to right: Tuxus, dertobi123, Pylon and Mr.Big trying to
protect the Gentoo booth from the onslaught of visitors
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/chemnitz_crew.jpg
1. http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/2004/allgemeines/
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2. Featured Developer of the Week
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Damien Krotkine
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Figure 2.1: Damien (dams) Krotkine
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040308_dams.jpg
This week's featured developer is Damien Krotkine[2] (dams), the lead for
the Gentoo Desktop Research Project[3]. He is also working on improving
Gentoo's configuration tools, specifically by promoting the libconf[4]
abstraction layer, a project he also contributes to. He claims these tasks
are largely administrative, and that he doesn't get much time to code for
Gentoo.
2. dams@gentoo.org
3. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/research/index.xml
4. http://www.nongnu.org/libconf/
dams (as he prefers to be called), began using Linux in 1998, with Red
Hat. He progressed through Mandrake before hearing about Gentoo just prior
to the release of 1.2. After Gentoo's 1.2 LiveCD was released, dams began
using the new distro. Around the same time, dams had a conversation with
Daniel Robbins[5] about libconf and the fact that Gentoo didn't really
have any higher-level configuration tools. The end result was dams role in
researching improvements and modifications to Gentoo's desktop features
and tools.
5. drobbins@gentoo.org
dams works as a Technical Project Leader on multi-platform applications
using the Mozilla engine - a job he describes as "having fun with cool
guys doing cool stuff on mozilla and other multi-platform open
technologies". He is a Mandrakesoft alumnus, having coded the early
versions of the Mandrake Control Center front-end and the Mandrake Network
Configuration tool. He went to school in Frankfurt, Germany and later in
Paris, France, where he studied Computer Science.
Our subject numbers perl[6], emacs[7], screen[8], zsh[9] and firefox[10]
amongst his favorite tools. He is a vanilla icewm[11] user and reads his
mail in console gnus[12]. He has a number of ix86-based workstations and
servers, as well as a "nifty iBook G4 with Gentoo PPC".
6. http://www.perl.com/
7. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
8. http://www.guckes.net/screen/
9. http://www.zsh.org/
10. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
11. http://www.icewm.org/
12. http://www.gnus.org/
dams claims he is a "typical geek", but does enjoy volleyball,
rollerskating and climbing as well as African percussion music. He lives
in Paris and spends most of his off-work time with his girlfriend. When
asked for a favorite quote, he offered "All your base are belong to us.",
which we think wasn't serious, and "perl rules", which probably was.
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3. Gentoo Security
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Libxml2 URI Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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A buffer overflow has been discovered in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6
which may be exploited by an attacker allowing the execution of arbitrary
code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[13]
13. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200403-01.xml
Linux kernel do_mremap local privilege escalation vulnerability
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A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels
by Paul Starzetz of iSEC Security Research which allows for local
privilege escalations.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[14]
14. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200403-02.xml
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4. Heard in the Community
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gentoo-user
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Buggy Gentoo?
As one observant gentoo-user list member pointed out[15] this week, there
have been more bugs reported than closed every week for quite some time.
Does this mean Gentoo win drown in bugs? Read and find out.
15. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=107831364419777&w=2
gentoo-dev
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Grading Portage updates.
We all love portage for the ease with which it means we can all keep
up-to-date systems, but have you just wanted to do critical updates,
without having to recompile {X, KDE, GNOME} in the process? Well that was
the suggestion made here[16].
16. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=107815541006048&w=2
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5. Gentoo International
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Japanese Input Methods
Gentooists in Japan have started a Wiki trying to get a grip on both the
general availability of input methods for Japanese text in a Linux
environment, and on how to install and use them in Gentoo Linux. The thing
is: there are so many competing, or overlapping, or incompatible, or just
redundant methods that even the pros are forgetting half of them all the
time. The collection at gentoo.gr.jp[17] is already impressive and
includes even some of the more obscure methods, but lacks the popular
im-ja, for example. Work in progress.
17.
http://king.gentoo.gr.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?%5B%5B%C6%FC%CB%DC%B8%EC%C6%FE%CE%
CF%C0%DF%C4%EA%BB%F6%CE%E3%BD%B8%5D%5D
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6. Bugzilla
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Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[18]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 27 February 2004 and 04 March 2004, activity on
the site has resulted in:
18. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 619 new bugs during this period
* 386 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 14 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 5168 currently open bugs: 140 are labeled 'blocker', 213 are
labeled 'critical', and 405 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Porting Team[19], with 47 closed bugs[20]
* Jeremy Huddleston[21], with 28 closed bugs[22]
* Perl Team[23], with 22 closed bugs[24]
* Gentoo Games[25], with 17 closed bugs[26]
* Gentoo KDE team[27], with 16 closed bugs[28]
19. amd64@gentoo.org
20.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&chfieldto=2004-03-04&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
21. eradicator@gentoo.org
22.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&chfieldto=2004-03-04&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
23. perl@gentoo.org
24.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&chfieldto=2004-03-04&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=perl@gentoo.org
25. games@gentoo.org
26.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&chfieldto=2004-03-04&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
27. kde@gentoo.org
28.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&
chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&chfieldto=2004-03-04&
resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
New Bug Rankings
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Science Related Packages Team[29], with 29 new bugs[30]
* Core System Packages Team[31], with 21 new bugs[32]
* x86 Kernel Team[33], with 17 new bugs[34]
* AMD64 Porting Team[35], with 13 new bugs[36]
* Jeremy Huddleston[37], with 12 new bugs[38]
29. sci@gentoo.org
30.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&
chfieldto=2004-03-04&assigned_to=sci@gentoo.org
31. base-system@gentoo.org
32.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&
chfieldto=2004-03-04&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
33. x86-kernel@gentoo.org
34.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&
chfieldto=2004-03-04&assigned_to=x86-kernel@gentoo.org
35. amd64@gentoo.org
36.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&
chfieldto=2004-03-04&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
37. eradicator@gentoo.org
38.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&
bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-02-27&
chfieldto=2004-03-04&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
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7. Moves, Adds, and Changes
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Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* none this week
Adds
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Bret Curtis - MIPS
* Dominik Stadler - KDE
* Lim Swee Tat - Java
Changes
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* none this week
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