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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 3 January 2005.
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1. Gentoo News
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1000 days: Gentoo Forums
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When it went online as gentoo.frozenliquid.net[1] on 6 April 2002, Kyle
Manna aka nitro[2] had set up the first Gentoo forum server on a 2 mbit/s
down, 380 kbit/s upstream cable connection, and was hosting it out of his
home. A thousand days later, the forum statistics look almost frightening,
with more than 70,000 registered users and more than 1.8 million posts in
the database. The Gentoo Forums[3] are the most popular support forum of
any single Linux distribution, and one of the biggest implementations
worldwide of the phpBB[4] forum software they've been running on from day
1.
1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2
2. nitro@gentoo.org
3. http://forums.gentoo.org
4. http://www.phpbb.com/
Figure 1.1: Forum statistics on 2 January 2005 - 1000 days!
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050103_forumstats.png
Gone are the glorious days of M5, the machine that hosted the Forums after
their migration to NYU in June 2003, which also accommodated the Gentoo
Bugzilla and rsync5.us, the fastest rsync server under the sun of its time
because it was running rsyncd out of the ramdisk... Last August, the
Gentoo Forums had to migrate again, to their current location at OSU
OSL[5] on two hyperthreading Dual 2.4GHz and 3GHz Xeon servers with
several gigabytes worth of RAM and plenty of disk space. With 2000 posts a
day contributed by up to 1800 concurrent users, the administrators and
moderators have been sleeping much better since the move.
5. http://www.osuosl.org/
Speaking of whom, this GWN proudly presents portraits of a number of Forum
moderators and administrators. Not all of them wanted to give up their
anonymity, some didn't include pictures. But no matter what their
background, affiliation or resident country may be, together they've been
providing the platform for one of the most coveted aspects of Gentoo
Linux: its outstanding user community and their Forums.
Website redesign mailing list
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Sven Vermeulen (Swift[6]) has announced the next steps in the process of
implementing the website redesign contest results at the actual Gentoo
website. "I hope to welcome lots of contributors that are willing to
donate some of their free time to the development of this redesign." says
Swift, who set up a new mailing list to coordinate the effort, currently
composed of the original designer Aaron Shi[7], the Gentoo developers
involved in the decision on which design to retain, and already a handful
of determined non-dev contributors with experience in web design.
6. swift@gentoo.org
7. http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/
"This mailinglist is primarily meant for discussions on the layout of the
Gentoo website (from which we can deviate a bit, but not much, since it
was elected by our community), the structure of the Gentoo website (think
sitemap) and the backend of the Gentoo website (the underlying XSLT code
and XML formats)." continues Swift. If you're a knowledgeable web
designer, content aggregator or generally good with XSLT and XML, and
would like to join the group that looks into the tasks at hand, please
contact Swift directly.
Gentoo Documentation Project update
-----------------------------------
New highlights have been added to the collection of Gentoo documentation,
most notably two contributions by Eric Brown[8] who wrote a remarkable
user manual[9] for Gentoo's own keychain and a Cron Guide[10]. Other
updated documents include the distcc guide[11], the quickstart guide to
mutt[12], the Alternative installation guide[13], Gentoo FAQ[14], the
Virtual mail hosting HOWTO[15], and the Migration to Linux 2.6 Guide[16],
and of course all available language versions of the 2004.3 handbook that
have been updated to reflect the same status as the English original.
8. airuike@gmail.com
9. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/keychain-guide.xml
10. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
11. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
12. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-to-mutt.xml
13. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
14. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml
15. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml
16. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml
The status update also speaks of a split of the installation instructions,
into one release-specific (networkless from disk) installation handbook,
and instructions for a current Portage based installation via the
Internet. Check the Project update page[17] for other interesting details.
17. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050102.xml
Speaking of whom, this GWN proudly presents a number of Forum moderators
and administrators. Not all of them wanted to give up their anonymity,
some didn't include pictures in their portraits. But no matter what their
background, affiliation or resident country may be, together they've been
providing the platform for one of the most coveted aspects of Gentoo
Linux: its outstanding user community and their Forums[18].
18. http://forums.gentoo.org
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As reported earlier, the Polish translator group is back on track with
their translations of the GWN. However, this time around they would like
to stabilize the effort by adding more volunteers to the group. If your a
native level Polish speaker and would like to contribute to the GWN
translations, please contact Åukasz Strzygowski[19] and have a look at the
project's website.[20]
19. lucass@gentoo.org
20. http://tygodnik.gentoo.pl/
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2. Gentoo Forums moderators' profiles
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Introduction
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Every wonder about the real identities of the shadowy demigods that rule
the Gentoo Forums[21]? GWN staff, in a hazardous undercover exclusive,
have uncovered some of the true faces of the cabal that have taken it upon
themselvves to ensure the orderly and efficient progress of what Linux
Format[22] has identified as one of the best support resources of 2004.
The article below identifies a few of those who have tirelessly pursued
duplicate posts, sorted threads into the proper categories, and walked
boldly unarmed into OTW (except for Pilla and his trusty lead pipe).
21. http://forums.gentoo.org
22. http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/awards/
Moderator Profiles
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Figure 2.1: Akar Chen S.L.
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_akar.jpg
Akar Chen S.L. (akar) is one of the Gentoo Chinese forum moderators. He
also is the leader of Open Source Hong Kong Fonts Project, a sub-project
of the Unifonts initiative led by Arne Götje (CJK TrueType fonts).
Figure 2.2: Wernfried Haas
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_haas.jpg
Wernfried Haas (amne) is currently studying at the University of
Technology in Graz and working on his diploma thesis. He read about Gentoo
in November 2002 on the mplayer-users mailing list just when SuSE no
longer met his needs. He uses Gentoo at home and work for everything,
including a workplace backup and printserver. Wernfried joined the
moderator team in December 2003 in the German forum and became a Global
moderator in Spring 2004. ( "Report a Dupe every now and then until
someone is fed up with moving your Dupes and makes you mod.") He usually
visits these forums in the following order: German, Networking & Security,
Gentoo Chat, Gentoo Forums Feedback, OTW. If time is left, he takes a look
at some other forums as well.
Figure 2.3: BonezTheGoon
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_bonezthegoon_avatar.jpg
BonezTheGoon is a largely self taught "nerd" who studied at the University
of New Mexico. He enjoys cutting-edge hardware and describes building a
new machine as "the greatest rush to me in the computer industry". He
games to justify the cost of his cutting edge hardware. He attempted his
first Gentoo installation in mid-May of 2002 and had an installation that
was actually bootable in late May. He says he "had a LOT to learn when
[he] started". Gentoo was actually last on his list due to some
misinformation he got on the web, so he tried pretty much everything else
first. He uses Gentoo primarily to familiarize himself with GNU/Linux and
"the wonderful world of Open Source". He became a moderator as a result of
a constant and prolific presence in the Forums. His favorite is the Gamers
forum.
Figure 2.4: Ioannis Aslanidis
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_deathwing00.jpg
Ioannis Aslanidis (Deathwing00) got in touch with Gentoo in Easter of
2003, after hearing people at his University evangelize about how cool and
personalizable Gentoo is. He currently works for the Banzai Research Group
on Artificial Intelligence[23] where he'll stay and get his PhD. He became
moderator of the Greek forum when it was created in the Fall of 2004, by
virtue of having proposed it. Months later, he also began moderating the
'News & Announcements' forum as he liked the idea of posting GLSAs as fast
as possible in order to have forum visitors up-to-date in security
matters. About a month later he became a global moderator. His favorite
forums (aside from the Greek language one) are Installing Gentoo, Kernel &
Hardware and Portage & Programming. He also takes care of the organization
of the as yet unofficial translation of Gentoo documentation into Greek
and the Hellenic Gentoo[24] site.
23. http://www.etse.urv.es/recerca/banzai/
24. http://hellenicgentoo.sf.net
Figure 2.5: Eric Hsu
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_erichsu.jpg
Eric Hsu (EricHsu) used to be a user of Redhat/Fedora Core, until in the
beginning of the year 2004 a friend showed him how cool Gentoo Linux could
be. Since then he has never looked back, even having converted his sister
and parents to use of the distro. His favourite forum is the Chinese
forum, followed by Desktop Environments, and Multimedia - but he visits
all of them. A great place for sharing the excitement of Gentoo!". He does
whatever he can do to push Gentoo in China, including taking it upon
himself to translate the Gentoo Handbook (x86) into a Simplified Chinese
version.
Figure 2.6: Marco Genasci
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_fedeliallalinea.jpg
Marco Genasci (fedeliallalinea) started using Gentoo 3 years ago, because
of the advice and installation assistance of a friend of his. He loved it
from the beginning and tries to use Gentoo for everything and everywhere.
His favourite forum is obviously the Italian one, but he often visits
"Documentation, Tips & Tricks" to brush up on useful tips and scripts. He
also helps in developing and updating the Gentoo Italian website [25]. He
is a member of GeChI[26] (Gentoo CHannel Italian), a Gentoo users group
for the area Italy and the Italian part of Switzerland.
25. www.gentoo-italia.net
26. http://www.gechi.it
Figure 2.7: Anders Hellgren
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_kallamej.jpg
Christian Hartmann (ian!) heard about Gentoo in late 2003 while searching
for a replacement of SuSE Linux for server environments. He was working as
a coder at the time. After installing and playing around with Gentoo Linux
on several machines he became addicted to it, and created his Forum
account in early 2003. The great support community and the fun of helping
others let his postcount rise steeply, leading to his becoming a moderator
in the German forum first, in September 2003. "I'm a community guy." says
ian!, who together with many other developers from Germany founded the
'Friends of Gentoo e.V.', the not-for-profit association promoting the use
of Gentoo in Germany. He was made a global moderator a little later in
2003 and became one of the forum's administrators in April 2004,is part of
the Gentoo Infrastructure project team and (partially) responsible for the
phpBB installation running the Forums. He's using Gentoo for his desktop
and the servers at work, and for private use, of course. Outside of the
Forums he's equally busy supporting Gentoo in many ways, not the least
important being his contributions to the GWN in the past few months. He
was the booth coordinator at LWE 2004 (Frankfurt) after helping out at
every single exhibition, conference or trade fair last year that he could
make it to, and you definitely want to check out some of his artwork for
labels of last year's FOSDEM, Linuxtag, and LWE special Gentoo LiveCD
editions. lwe..)
Anders Hellgren (kallamej) first came into contact with Gentoo when he got
a new computer in May 2003. He had originally planned to dual boot Linux
and Windows, but as he only had NT4 available. Since NT4 doesn't like to
be installed on large partitions, the computer became Gentoo only. In July
2004 he became a global moderator, largely because he had been quite
active reporting duplicates so that the admins and the rest of the mods
thought he might as well take care of it by himself. Frequently Asked
Questions and Portage & Programming are Anders' favourite forums.
Figure 2.8: mikessu
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_mikessu_avatar.jpg
Mikko Yliniemi (mikessu) got interested in Gentoo when he heard about it
from IRC. He was told about portage and the helpful community so he
decided to give it a try. Now he uses Gentoo at home for his personal use.
He became a Finnish forum moderator in the middle of 2004. His favourite
forums are the Multimedia forum and of course the Finnish forum.
Krzysiek Pawlik (Nelchael) settled happily on Gentoo after a friend's
demonstration. He uses Gentoo on his workstations as well as on servers
and for playing around. In December of 2004 another Polish forum moderator
was needed - Krzysiek was suggested by the other mods and was added to the
moderator group a few days later. His favourite forums are the Polish
ones, but he occasionally visits Networking & Security and Portage &
Programming. He sometimes contributes ebuilds to Gentoo, and one of
Nelchael's OSS projects is on its way into portage (Bug #68953[27]).
27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68953
Figure 2.9: Kyle Manna
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_nitro.jpg
Kyle Manna (Nitro) is currently a freshman at University of Wisconsin
Madison. He is majoring in Electrical Computer Engineering and in his free
time he likes to work on his car. He got involved with Gentoo around
release candidate #6 of the 1.0 release. Ended up starting a forum on his
home webserver and I think we all know what happened with that. He mostly
uses Gentoo in server applications. Nitro has been a Moderator and Site
Admin since the beginning as he started the forums. His favourite forums
are Networking & Security as well as Documentations, Tips & Tricks.
Originally he was the sole forum administrator, but that changed quickly
as other admins came onboard to help. After the forums started to get big
he became a developer as well and worked on some networking ebuilds.
Figure 2.10: Mauricio Lima Pilla
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_pilla.jpg
Mauricio Lima Pilla (Pilla) received his PhD Degree in Computer Sciences
from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) last June, and
is still working there in the Clumssy Project[28] (HP/UFRGS) as well as
lecturing in the CS Department. His previous appointments included an
internship in the University of Pittsburgh. After using Debian, Red Hat
and Conectiva, he was looking for a distribution which was easy to update
and also give total control to the user. He gave Gentoo a try and fell in
love with it. He joined the "terrific" forums in August 2002 and spends
considerable time in OTW and Gentoo Chat, but his Forums of choice are
Desktop Environments and Kernel & Hardware.
28. http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/clumssy/
Figure 2.11: Fabrizio Masia
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_randomaze.jpg
Fabrizio Masia (randomaze) was born in Sardinia 35 years ago. He studied
at the University of Pisa and now works in Milano as technical adviser. He
learned about Gentoo in 2003. He enjoys browsing Documentation, Tips &
Tricks and moderating the Italian forum. He is also a member of GeChI[29]
(Gentoo Channell Italia), an association that promotes initiatives
intended to spread Gentoo Linux in Italy and in the Italian part of
Switzerland as well as serving as an admin for Gentoo-Italia[30], a
news/wiki web-site for the Italian community.
29. http://www.gechi.it
30. http://www.gentoo-italia.net
Figure 2.12: shev
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_shev.jpg
shev studies of Computer Science Engineering and works as a technical
specialist in Public Administration, taking care of networks and security.
He discovered Gentoo approximately two years ago, while surfing the web
looking for a new distribution that could satisfy his requirements. He
became a prolific poster to the fourms, and was proposed as a moderator
after a few months. He considers Gentoo the only true and valid
alternative to MacOS X. He has collaborated with the translation of Gentoo
documentation, and took part in the foundation of GeChI[31] (GEntoo
CHannel Italian) of which he is President.
31. http://www.gechi.it
Figure 2.13: Tom Knight
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_tomk.jpg
Tom Knight (tomk) has been using Gentoo since September 2003, after
discovering that he needed more than what OBSD on the Desktop could offer.
He originally used Gentoo for personal work, but now he runs it on his
servers, at work and for his development work. Tom joined the forums at
the same time and became a moderator at the end of March 2004. He spends a
lot of time in Portage & Programming, as he is a programmer. He is also a
Gentoo developer, part of the net-mail herd and maintainer of the Joe's
Own Editor (joe) ebuilds.
Figure 2.14: Erik Ekman
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_yarrick.jpg
Erik Ekman (Yarrick) started using Gentoo the summer of 2002, after
checking out the options for running Linux full-time. He uses it on his
personal all-in-one box at home, and on almost every box when he can and
is allowed to. He was around at the time when the Scandinavian forums
started, and volunteered for to moderate them - he says that "the users
behave, so it's not hard work." Erik says that the Documentation, Tips
&Tricks forum brings him lot of valuable advice. He also enjoys the Gentoo
Chat forum.
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3. Gentoo security
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Xpdf, GPdf: New integer overflows
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New integer overflows were discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in
the execution of arbitrary code. GPdf includes Xpdf code and therefore is
vulnerable to the same issues.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[32]
32. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-24.xml
CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CUPS, ranging from local
Denial of Service attacks to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[33]
33. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
ViewCVS: Information leak and XSS vulnerabilities
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ViewCVS is vulnerable to an information leak and to cross-site scripting
(XSS) issues.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[34]
34. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-26.xml
PHProjekt: Remote code execution vulnerability
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PHProjekt contains a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary PHP code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[35]
35. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-27.xml
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4. Heard in the community
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gentoo-user
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Rsync-ing selectively
People with low-bandwidth connections may be interested in our first
thread selection in this issue! Is it possible to rsync only parts of the
Portage tree? What are some of the conditions under which you would prefer
to do so? Read this thread for the pros and cons of doing so.
* emerge sync only one package[36]
36. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/112769
Excluding package updates
In light of our first topic this week, we bring you another
Portage-related thread. Occasionally a package that you do not necessarily
want to update will become available in the Portage tree. PHP5 is one
example, Apache2 is another. VMWare 5 is the one given in this thread.
What Portage options are available to consider what you already have as
up-to-date so one can "emerge -u world" without worry? Read on!
* Best practice to ignore an update[37]
37. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/112541
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5. Gentoo International
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Japan: GentooJP Bounenkai report and photos
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The GentooJP[38] year-end party was held in the Shibuya district of Tokyo
on 28 December 2004. Twelve Japanese Gentooists from all Japan joined in
the fun, had many drinks, laughed and smiled a lot, and discussed in all
seriousness the planned publication of the second (!) Gentoo book. Even
Masatomo Nakano[39], one of Japan's most active Gentoo developers, could
attend the Bounenkai during his brief visit from London where he currently
lives.
38. http://www.gentoo.gr.jp
39. nakano@gentoo.org
Figure 5.1: The Bounenkai crowd in a Shibuya pub, complexions not entirely
void of beverage influence
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_gentoojp.jpg
2004 was an exceptional year for the Japanese Gentoo community, with a
number of featured Gentoo articles in Linux magazines, thanks to Nakano
and Mamoru Komachi (see below). 2004 also saw the first Gentoo book "My
first Gentoo"[40] by Softbank Publishing, many translation improvements
including the latest Gentoo Handbook, and the Japanese GWN translator team
being back in business and on track with timely deliveries of the weekly
newsletter. As people gradually understand what the benefits from a
source-based distribution are, expectations for Gentoo to gain even more
popularity in Japan in 2005 are high among the Japanese Gentooists.
40. http://www.sbpnet.jp/books/products/detail.asp?sku=4797324945
Note: A complete series of photos from the event is available here.
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6. Gentoo in the press
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Software Design (December 2004 and January 2005 issues, in Japanese)
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Two articles in a series written by Gentoo developer Mamoru Komachi[41]
are looking in great detail at "Package Management in Gentoo." What
started in the December issue of Software Design is continued in the
current January number available at newsstands in Japan: a description of
Portage using practical examples, helpful tips and tools not only for
Portage newbies, but also for weathered admins just recently migrating
from other distros. The article focusses especially on detailed
explanations of new features in Portage version 2.0.51, to further boost
people's awareness of Gentoo in Japan.
41. usata@gentoo.org
Apple-Linux.org (27 December 2004, in French)
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The integration of a piece of software in Portage can be news in itself: A
popular game clone called Wormux[42] is available in a new version and has
been added to the Portage tree, writes Apple-Linux.org author Prosper in
his announcement "Encore un ver"[43], briefly mentioning Portage for Mac
OS X, too.
42. http://www.wormux.org
43. http://www.apple-linux.org/news.php?id=833
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7. 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[44]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 26 December 2004 and 02 January 2005, activity
on the site has resulted in:
44. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 700 new bugs during this period
* 390 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 31 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 7877 currently open bugs: 113 are labeled 'blocker', 226 are
labeled 'critical', and 558 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo Games[45], with 56 closed bugs[46]
* Sven Vermeulen[47], with 21 closed bugs[48]
* media-video herd[49], with 15 closed bugs[50]
* Daniel Black[51], with 15 closed bugs[52]
* Seemant Kulleen[53], with 13 closed bugs[54]
* AMD64 Porting Team[55], with 12 closed bugs[56]
* Daniel Ahlberg[57], with 12 closed bugs[58]
* ppc64 architecture team[59], with 11 closed bugs[60]
45. games@gentoo.org
46.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
47. swift@gentoo.org
48.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=swift@gentoo.org
49. media-video@gentoo.org
50.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
51. dragonheart@gentoo.org
52.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dragonheart@gentoo.org
53. seemant@gentoo.org
54.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=seemant@gentoo.org
55. amd64@gentoo.org
56.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
57. aliz@gentoo.org
58.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=aliz@gentoo.org
59. ppc64@gentoo.org
60.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc64@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[61], with 21 new bugs[62]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[63], with 14 new bugs[64]
* Gentoo Sound Team[65], with 14 new bugs[66]
* AMD64 Porting Team[67], with 12 new bugs[68]
* media-video herd[69], with 11 new bugs[70]
* Net-Mail Packages[71], with 10 new bugs[72]
* Jeremy Huddleston[73], with 8 new bugs[74]
* Gentoo Science Related Packages[75], with 7 new bugs[76]
61. base-system@gentoo.org
62.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
63. x11@gentoo.org
64.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
65. sound@gentoo.org
66.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
67. amd64@gentoo.org
68.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
69. media-video@gentoo.org
70.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
71. net-mail@gentoo.org
72.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=net-mail@gentoo.org
73. eradicator@gentoo.org
74.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
75. sci@gentoo.org
76.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=sci@gentoo.org
===========================
8. Moves, adds, and changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* None this week
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* None this week
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9. Contribute to GWN
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1. Gentoo News
==============
1000 days: Gentoo Forums
------------------------
When it went online as gentoo.frozenliquid.net[1] on 6 April 2002, Kyle
Manna aka nitro[2] had set up the first Gentoo forum server on a 2 mbit/s
down, 380 kbit/s upstream cable connection, and was hosting it out of his
home. A thousand days later, the forum statistics look almost frightening,
with more than 70,000 registered users and more than 1.8 million posts in
the database. The Gentoo Forums[3] are the most popular support forum of
any single Linux distribution, and one of the biggest implementations
worldwide of the phpBB[4] forum software they've been running on from day
1.
1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2
2. nitro@gentoo.org
3. http://forums.gentoo.org
4. http://www.phpbb.com/
Figure 1.1: Forum statistics on 2 January 2005 - 1000 days!
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050103_forumstats.png
Gone are the glorious days of M5, the machine that hosted the Forums after
their migration to NYU in June 2003, which also accommodated the Gentoo
Bugzilla and rsync5.us, the fastest rsync server under the sun of its time
because it was running rsyncd out of the ramdisk... Last August, the
Gentoo Forums had to migrate again, to their current location at OSU
OSL[5] on two hyperthreading Dual 2.4GHz and 3GHz Xeon servers with
several gigabytes worth of RAM and plenty of disk space. With 2000 posts a
day contributed by up to 1800 concurrent users, the administrators and
moderators have been sleeping much better since the move.
5. http://www.osuosl.org/
Speaking of whom, this GWN proudly presents portraits of a number of Forum
moderators and administrators. Not all of them wanted to give up their
anonymity, some didn't include pictures. But no matter what their
background, affiliation or resident country may be, together they've been
providing the platform for one of the most coveted aspects of Gentoo
Linux: its outstanding user community and their Forums.
Website redesign mailing list
-----------------------------
Sven Vermeulen (Swift[6]) has announced the next steps in the process of
implementing the website redesign contest results at the actual Gentoo
website. "I hope to welcome lots of contributors that are willing to
donate some of their free time to the development of this redesign." says
Swift, who set up a new mailing list to coordinate the effort, currently
composed of the original designer Aaron Shi[7], the Gentoo developers
involved in the decision on which design to retain, and already a handful
of determined non-dev contributors with experience in web design.
6. swift@gentoo.org
7. http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/
"This mailinglist is primarily meant for discussions on the layout of the
Gentoo website (from which we can deviate a bit, but not much, since it
was elected by our community), the structure of the Gentoo website (think
sitemap) and the backend of the Gentoo website (the underlying XSLT code
and XML formats)." continues Swift. If you're a knowledgeable web
designer, content aggregator or generally good with XSLT and XML, and
would like to join the group that looks into the tasks at hand, please
contact Swift directly.
Gentoo Documentation Project update
-----------------------------------
New highlights have been added to the collection of Gentoo documentation,
most notably two contributions by Eric Brown[8] who wrote a remarkable
user manual[9] for Gentoo's own keychain and a Cron Guide[10]. Other
updated documents include the distcc guide[11], the quickstart guide to
mutt[12], the Alternative installation guide[13], Gentoo FAQ[14], the
Virtual mail hosting HOWTO[15], and the Migration to Linux 2.6 Guide[16],
and of course all available language versions of the 2004.3 handbook that
have been updated to reflect the same status as the English original.
8. airuike@gmail.com
9. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/keychain-guide.xml
10. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
11. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
12. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-to-mutt.xml
13. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
14. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml
15. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml
16. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml
The status update also speaks of a split of the installation instructions,
into one release-specific (networkless from disk) installation handbook,
and instructions for a current Portage based installation via the
Internet. Check the Project update page[17] for other interesting details.
17. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/status/status_20050102.xml
Speaking of whom, this GWN proudly presents a number of Forum moderators
and administrators. Not all of them wanted to give up their anonymity,
some didn't include pictures in their portraits. But no matter what their
background, affiliation or resident country may be, together they've been
providing the platform for one of the most coveted aspects of Gentoo
Linux: its outstanding user community and their Forums[18].
18. http://forums.gentoo.org
---
As reported earlier, the Polish translator group is back on track with
their translations of the GWN. However, this time around they would like
to stabilize the effort by adding more volunteers to the group. If your a
native level Polish speaker and would like to contribute to the GWN
translations, please contact Åukasz Strzygowski[19] and have a look at the
project's website.[20]
19. lucass@gentoo.org
20. http://tygodnik.gentoo.pl/
=====================================
2. Gentoo Forums moderators' profiles
=====================================
Introduction
------------
Every wonder about the real identities of the shadowy demigods that rule
the Gentoo Forums[21]? GWN staff, in a hazardous undercover exclusive,
have uncovered some of the true faces of the cabal that have taken it upon
themselvves to ensure the orderly and efficient progress of what Linux
Format[22] has identified as one of the best support resources of 2004.
The article below identifies a few of those who have tirelessly pursued
duplicate posts, sorted threads into the proper categories, and walked
boldly unarmed into OTW (except for Pilla and his trusty lead pipe).
21. http://forums.gentoo.org
22. http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/awards/
Moderator Profiles
------------------
Figure 2.1: Akar Chen S.L.
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_akar.jpg
Akar Chen S.L. (akar) is one of the Gentoo Chinese forum moderators. He
also is the leader of Open Source Hong Kong Fonts Project, a sub-project
of the Unifonts initiative led by Arne Götje (CJK TrueType fonts).
Figure 2.2: Wernfried Haas
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_haas.jpg
Wernfried Haas (amne) is currently studying at the University of
Technology in Graz and working on his diploma thesis. He read about Gentoo
in November 2002 on the mplayer-users mailing list just when SuSE no
longer met his needs. He uses Gentoo at home and work for everything,
including a workplace backup and printserver. Wernfried joined the
moderator team in December 2003 in the German forum and became a Global
moderator in Spring 2004. ( "Report a Dupe every now and then until
someone is fed up with moving your Dupes and makes you mod.") He usually
visits these forums in the following order: German, Networking & Security,
Gentoo Chat, Gentoo Forums Feedback, OTW. If time is left, he takes a look
at some other forums as well.
Figure 2.3: BonezTheGoon
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_bonezthegoon_avatar.jpg
BonezTheGoon is a largely self taught "nerd" who studied at the University
of New Mexico. He enjoys cutting-edge hardware and describes building a
new machine as "the greatest rush to me in the computer industry". He
games to justify the cost of his cutting edge hardware. He attempted his
first Gentoo installation in mid-May of 2002 and had an installation that
was actually bootable in late May. He says he "had a LOT to learn when
[he] started". Gentoo was actually last on his list due to some
misinformation he got on the web, so he tried pretty much everything else
first. He uses Gentoo primarily to familiarize himself with GNU/Linux and
"the wonderful world of Open Source". He became a moderator as a result of
a constant and prolific presence in the Forums. His favorite is the Gamers
forum.
Figure 2.4: Ioannis Aslanidis
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_deathwing00.jpg
Ioannis Aslanidis (Deathwing00) got in touch with Gentoo in Easter of
2003, after hearing people at his University evangelize about how cool and
personalizable Gentoo is. He currently works for the Banzai Research Group
on Artificial Intelligence[23] where he'll stay and get his PhD. He became
moderator of the Greek forum when it was created in the Fall of 2004, by
virtue of having proposed it. Months later, he also began moderating the
'News & Announcements' forum as he liked the idea of posting GLSAs as fast
as possible in order to have forum visitors up-to-date in security
matters. About a month later he became a global moderator. His favorite
forums (aside from the Greek language one) are Installing Gentoo, Kernel &
Hardware and Portage & Programming. He also takes care of the organization
of the as yet unofficial translation of Gentoo documentation into Greek
and the Hellenic Gentoo[24] site.
23. http://www.etse.urv.es/recerca/banzai/
24. http://hellenicgentoo.sf.net
Figure 2.5: Eric Hsu
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_erichsu.jpg
Eric Hsu (EricHsu) used to be a user of Redhat/Fedora Core, until in the
beginning of the year 2004 a friend showed him how cool Gentoo Linux could
be. Since then he has never looked back, even having converted his sister
and parents to use of the distro. His favourite forum is the Chinese
forum, followed by Desktop Environments, and Multimedia - but he visits
all of them. A great place for sharing the excitement of Gentoo!". He does
whatever he can do to push Gentoo in China, including taking it upon
himself to translate the Gentoo Handbook (x86) into a Simplified Chinese
version.
Figure 2.6: Marco Genasci
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_fedeliallalinea.jpg
Marco Genasci (fedeliallalinea) started using Gentoo 3 years ago, because
of the advice and installation assistance of a friend of his. He loved it
from the beginning and tries to use Gentoo for everything and everywhere.
His favourite forum is obviously the Italian one, but he often visits
"Documentation, Tips & Tricks" to brush up on useful tips and scripts. He
also helps in developing and updating the Gentoo Italian website [25]. He
is a member of GeChI[26] (Gentoo CHannel Italian), a Gentoo users group
for the area Italy and the Italian part of Switzerland.
25. www.gentoo-italia.net
26. http://www.gechi.it
Figure 2.7: Anders Hellgren
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_kallamej.jpg
Christian Hartmann (ian!) heard about Gentoo in late 2003 while searching
for a replacement of SuSE Linux for server environments. He was working as
a coder at the time. After installing and playing around with Gentoo Linux
on several machines he became addicted to it, and created his Forum
account in early 2003. The great support community and the fun of helping
others let his postcount rise steeply, leading to his becoming a moderator
in the German forum first, in September 2003. "I'm a community guy." says
ian!, who together with many other developers from Germany founded the
'Friends of Gentoo e.V.', the not-for-profit association promoting the use
of Gentoo in Germany. He was made a global moderator a little later in
2003 and became one of the forum's administrators in April 2004,is part of
the Gentoo Infrastructure project team and (partially) responsible for the
phpBB installation running the Forums. He's using Gentoo for his desktop
and the servers at work, and for private use, of course. Outside of the
Forums he's equally busy supporting Gentoo in many ways, not the least
important being his contributions to the GWN in the past few months. He
was the booth coordinator at LWE 2004 (Frankfurt) after helping out at
every single exhibition, conference or trade fair last year that he could
make it to, and you definitely want to check out some of his artwork for
labels of last year's FOSDEM, Linuxtag, and LWE special Gentoo LiveCD
editions. lwe..)
Anders Hellgren (kallamej) first came into contact with Gentoo when he got
a new computer in May 2003. He had originally planned to dual boot Linux
and Windows, but as he only had NT4 available. Since NT4 doesn't like to
be installed on large partitions, the computer became Gentoo only. In July
2004 he became a global moderator, largely because he had been quite
active reporting duplicates so that the admins and the rest of the mods
thought he might as well take care of it by himself. Frequently Asked
Questions and Portage & Programming are Anders' favourite forums.
Figure 2.8: mikessu
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_mikessu_avatar.jpg
Mikko Yliniemi (mikessu) got interested in Gentoo when he heard about it
from IRC. He was told about portage and the helpful community so he
decided to give it a try. Now he uses Gentoo at home for his personal use.
He became a Finnish forum moderator in the middle of 2004. His favourite
forums are the Multimedia forum and of course the Finnish forum.
Krzysiek Pawlik (Nelchael) settled happily on Gentoo after a friend's
demonstration. He uses Gentoo on his workstations as well as on servers
and for playing around. In December of 2004 another Polish forum moderator
was needed - Krzysiek was suggested by the other mods and was added to the
moderator group a few days later. His favourite forums are the Polish
ones, but he occasionally visits Networking & Security and Portage &
Programming. He sometimes contributes ebuilds to Gentoo, and one of
Nelchael's OSS projects is on its way into portage (Bug #68953[27]).
27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68953
Figure 2.9: Kyle Manna
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_nitro.jpg
Kyle Manna (Nitro) is currently a freshman at University of Wisconsin
Madison. He is majoring in Electrical Computer Engineering and in his free
time he likes to work on his car. He got involved with Gentoo around
release candidate #6 of the 1.0 release. Ended up starting a forum on his
home webserver and I think we all know what happened with that. He mostly
uses Gentoo in server applications. Nitro has been a Moderator and Site
Admin since the beginning as he started the forums. His favourite forums
are Networking & Security as well as Documentations, Tips & Tricks.
Originally he was the sole forum administrator, but that changed quickly
as other admins came onboard to help. After the forums started to get big
he became a developer as well and worked on some networking ebuilds.
Figure 2.10: Mauricio Lima Pilla
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_pilla.jpg
Mauricio Lima Pilla (Pilla) received his PhD Degree in Computer Sciences
from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) last June, and
is still working there in the Clumssy Project[28] (HP/UFRGS) as well as
lecturing in the CS Department. His previous appointments included an
internship in the University of Pittsburgh. After using Debian, Red Hat
and Conectiva, he was looking for a distribution which was easy to update
and also give total control to the user. He gave Gentoo a try and fell in
love with it. He joined the "terrific" forums in August 2002 and spends
considerable time in OTW and Gentoo Chat, but his Forums of choice are
Desktop Environments and Kernel & Hardware.
28. http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/clumssy/
Figure 2.11: Fabrizio Masia
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_randomaze.jpg
Fabrizio Masia (randomaze) was born in Sardinia 35 years ago. He studied
at the University of Pisa and now works in Milano as technical adviser. He
learned about Gentoo in 2003. He enjoys browsing Documentation, Tips &
Tricks and moderating the Italian forum. He is also a member of GeChI[29]
(Gentoo Channell Italia), an association that promotes initiatives
intended to spread Gentoo Linux in Italy and in the Italian part of
Switzerland as well as serving as an admin for Gentoo-Italia[30], a
news/wiki web-site for the Italian community.
29. http://www.gechi.it
30. http://www.gentoo-italia.net
Figure 2.12: shev
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_shev.jpg
shev studies of Computer Science Engineering and works as a technical
specialist in Public Administration, taking care of networks and security.
He discovered Gentoo approximately two years ago, while surfing the web
looking for a new distribution that could satisfy his requirements. He
became a prolific poster to the fourms, and was proposed as a moderator
after a few months. He considers Gentoo the only true and valid
alternative to MacOS X. He has collaborated with the translation of Gentoo
documentation, and took part in the foundation of GeChI[31] (GEntoo
CHannel Italian) of which he is President.
31. http://www.gechi.it
Figure 2.13: Tom Knight
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_tomk.jpg
Tom Knight (tomk) has been using Gentoo since September 2003, after
discovering that he needed more than what OBSD on the Desktop could offer.
He originally used Gentoo for personal work, but now he runs it on his
servers, at work and for his development work. Tom joined the forums at
the same time and became a moderator at the end of March 2004. He spends a
lot of time in Portage & Programming, as he is a programmer. He is also a
Gentoo developer, part of the net-mail herd and maintainer of the Joe's
Own Editor (joe) ebuilds.
Figure 2.14: Erik Ekman
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_yarrick.jpg
Erik Ekman (Yarrick) started using Gentoo the summer of 2002, after
checking out the options for running Linux full-time. He uses it on his
personal all-in-one box at home, and on almost every box when he can and
is allowed to. He was around at the time when the Scandinavian forums
started, and volunteered for to moderate them - he says that "the users
behave, so it's not hard work." Erik says that the Documentation, Tips
&Tricks forum brings him lot of valuable advice. He also enjoys the Gentoo
Chat forum.
==================
3. Gentoo security
==================
Xpdf, GPdf: New integer overflows
---------------------------------
New integer overflows were discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in
the execution of arbitrary code. GPdf includes Xpdf code and therefore is
vulnerable to the same issues.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[32]
32. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-24.xml
CUPS: Multiple vulnerabilities
------------------------------
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CUPS, ranging from local
Denial of Service attacks to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[33]
33. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-25.xml
ViewCVS: Information leak and XSS vulnerabilities
-------------------------------------------------
ViewCVS is vulnerable to an information leak and to cross-site scripting
(XSS) issues.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[34]
34. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-26.xml
PHProjekt: Remote code execution vulnerability
----------------------------------------------
PHProjekt contains a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary PHP code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[35]
35. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-27.xml
=========================
4. Heard in the community
=========================
gentoo-user
-----------
Rsync-ing selectively
People with low-bandwidth connections may be interested in our first
thread selection in this issue! Is it possible to rsync only parts of the
Portage tree? What are some of the conditions under which you would prefer
to do so? Read this thread for the pros and cons of doing so.
* emerge sync only one package[36]
36. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/112769
Excluding package updates
In light of our first topic this week, we bring you another
Portage-related thread. Occasionally a package that you do not necessarily
want to update will become available in the Portage tree. PHP5 is one
example, Apache2 is another. VMWare 5 is the one given in this thread.
What Portage options are available to consider what you already have as
up-to-date so one can "emerge -u world" without worry? Read on!
* Best practice to ignore an update[37]
37. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/112541
=======================
5. Gentoo International
=======================
Japan: GentooJP Bounenkai report and photos
-------------------------------------------
The GentooJP[38] year-end party was held in the Shibuya district of Tokyo
on 28 December 2004. Twelve Japanese Gentooists from all Japan joined in
the fun, had many drinks, laughed and smiled a lot, and discussed in all
seriousness the planned publication of the second (!) Gentoo book. Even
Masatomo Nakano[39], one of Japan's most active Gentoo developers, could
attend the Bounenkai during his brief visit from London where he currently
lives.
38. http://www.gentoo.gr.jp
39. nakano@gentoo.org
Figure 5.1: The Bounenkai crowd in a Shibuya pub, complexions not entirely
void of beverage influence
http://www.gentoo.org/images/20050103_gentoojp.jpg
2004 was an exceptional year for the Japanese Gentoo community, with a
number of featured Gentoo articles in Linux magazines, thanks to Nakano
and Mamoru Komachi (see below). 2004 also saw the first Gentoo book "My
first Gentoo"[40] by Softbank Publishing, many translation improvements
including the latest Gentoo Handbook, and the Japanese GWN translator team
being back in business and on track with timely deliveries of the weekly
newsletter. As people gradually understand what the benefits from a
source-based distribution are, expectations for Gentoo to gain even more
popularity in Japan in 2005 are high among the Japanese Gentooists.
40. http://www.sbpnet.jp/books/products/detail.asp?sku=4797324945
Note: A complete series of photos from the event is available here.
======================
6. Gentoo in the press
======================
Software Design (December 2004 and January 2005 issues, in Japanese)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Two articles in a series written by Gentoo developer Mamoru Komachi[41]
are looking in great detail at "Package Management in Gentoo." What
started in the December issue of Software Design is continued in the
current January number available at newsstands in Japan: a description of
Portage using practical examples, helpful tips and tools not only for
Portage newbies, but also for weathered admins just recently migrating
from other distros. The article focusses especially on detailed
explanations of new features in Portage version 2.0.51, to further boost
people's awareness of Gentoo in Japan.
41. usata@gentoo.org
Apple-Linux.org (27 December 2004, in French)
---------------------------------------------
The integration of a piece of software in Portage can be news in itself: A
popular game clone called Wormux[42] is available in a new version and has
been added to the Portage tree, writes Apple-Linux.org author Prosper in
his announcement "Encore un ver"[43], briefly mentioning Portage for Mac
OS X, too.
42. http://www.wormux.org
43. http://www.apple-linux.org/news.php?id=833
===========
7. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[44]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 26 December 2004 and 02 January 2005, activity
on the site has resulted in:
44. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 700 new bugs during this period
* 390 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 31 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 7877 currently open bugs: 113 are labeled 'blocker', 226 are
labeled 'critical', and 558 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo Games[45], with 56 closed bugs[46]
* Sven Vermeulen[47], with 21 closed bugs[48]
* media-video herd[49], with 15 closed bugs[50]
* Daniel Black[51], with 15 closed bugs[52]
* Seemant Kulleen[53], with 13 closed bugs[54]
* AMD64 Porting Team[55], with 12 closed bugs[56]
* Daniel Ahlberg[57], with 12 closed bugs[58]
* ppc64 architecture team[59], with 11 closed bugs[60]
45. games@gentoo.org
46.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
47. swift@gentoo.org
48.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=swift@gentoo.org
49. media-video@gentoo.org
50.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
51. dragonheart@gentoo.org
52.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dragonheart@gentoo.org
53. seemant@gentoo.org
54.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=seemant@gentoo.org
55. amd64@gentoo.org
56.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
57. aliz@gentoo.org
58.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=aliz@gentoo.org
59. ppc64@gentoo.org
60.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc64@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[61], with 21 new bugs[62]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[63], with 14 new bugs[64]
* Gentoo Sound Team[65], with 14 new bugs[66]
* AMD64 Porting Team[67], with 12 new bugs[68]
* media-video herd[69], with 11 new bugs[70]
* Net-Mail Packages[71], with 10 new bugs[72]
* Jeremy Huddleston[73], with 8 new bugs[74]
* Gentoo Science Related Packages[75], with 7 new bugs[76]
61. base-system@gentoo.org
62.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
63. x11@gentoo.org
64.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
65. sound@gentoo.org
66.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
67. amd64@gentoo.org
68.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
69. media-video@gentoo.org
70.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
71. net-mail@gentoo.org
72.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=net-mail@gentoo.org
73. eradicator@gentoo.org
74.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
75. sci@gentoo.org
76.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-12-26&chfieldto=2005-01-02&assigned_to=sci@gentoo.org
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8. Moves, adds, and changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* None this week
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* None this week
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