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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 11 April 2005.
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1. Gentoo News
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Web site face lift
------------------
Xavier Neys[1]has applied some cosmetic touches to the official Gentoo
website. While the redesign of the site is still being worked on, the list
of changes[2] reveals bug fixes for specific browser problems, the
introduction of justified text -- a much needed spring cleaning that irons
out some inconsistencies in the color scheme, prevents code samples from
running off the right edge of your screen, and includes other less visible
adjustments.
1. neysx@gentoo.org
2. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050408-cosmetics.xml
Just in case the updates have created problems for you rather than solved
the ones you may have had, please use Gentoo's bugzilla to file a bug
report.
Forum staff changes
-------------------
Great reshuffle of moderators and admins over at the Forums these days:
Administrator ian! (Christian Hartmann) left the Gentoo project two weeks
ago, and also retired from his Forums duties. Thanks again for all the
work he did! To compensate for ian! leaving, moderators amne (Wernfried
Haas), kallamej (Anders Hellgren) and pilla (Mauricio Lima Pilla) have
become administrators, so no one needs to worry about spammers not getting
banned or problems with inactive accounts not getting fixed in a timely
manner. tomk (Tom Knight) also joined the administrator team, mainly to
resume ian's work on improving the forums. Administrating one of the
largest user communities takes a lot of time, so it's good to hear that
two new global moderators, Maedhros (Jonathan Coome) and curtis119
(Michael Curtis Napier) have joined the moderator ranks: Maedhros is known
for being helpful in a lot of the support forums, curtis119 mostly for his
presence among the OTW community. no4b (Adrian "Abaddon" Czerniak) and
fallow (Michal Kaczmarski) retired from their jobs as moderators in the
Polish forum, being replaced by arsen (Andrzej Olender) and _troll_
(Przemysław Maciąg), and last but not least slick (Uwe Hoelzel) joined the
German forum moderator team. Welcome on board, Gentoomen!
========================
2. Developer of the week
========================
"Gentoo has the power to rule the world, but we're just not in the right
place yet." -- Jochen Maes (sejo)
---------------------------------
Figure 2.1: Jochen Maes aka SeJo
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050411_sejo.jpg
This week's special is SeJo, known in real life as Jochen Maes, one of our
Belgian developers (living in Leuven at the moment). He fills many roles
in Gentoo: Developer relations, Gentoo/Java recruiter, Java/PPC lead, GLSA
padawan, PPC security liaison (together with hansmi[3]). His Gentoo-work
is, obviously, recruiting, drafting GLSA, working on Java ebuilds, stable
marking security bugs and general bugsquatting. Asked what he considers to
be the biggest OpenSource Project that lives, he points to himself --
albeit that statement leaves his audience wondering under what conditions
the source code is made available.
3. hansmi@gentoo.org
The aquisition of the IBM-JRE/JDK license and adding it to the portage
tree as well as his work on porting Java 1.5 to PPC are the things he is
most proud of in Gentoo. His "normal" work is being done as a general
Linux specialist at the French IT-group Bull[4], where he does everything
even remotely Linux- and VMware-related. His impressive skills are
self-taught, but he attends an evening school to get a bachelor in
computer science, which should be done by next year. After that he intends
to study Japanese...
4. http://www.bull.com/
"Mozilla, Eclipse, pornview, vi, screen and definitely irssi!" are his
favourite applications, running mostly on his Powerbook G4 15" with 1.5GB
(!) of memory. Other hardware is a Pegasos PPC, two Sun Ultra10, a Sun
Ultra5 and a Compaq Proliant 3000R, hosted in fellow Belgian Gentoo
developer pvdabeels[5] basement. Although he seems to be unaware of life
outside the computer, he describes the beginning of a normal day as "when
I first get up I take a smoke and make some decaf. Then I kiss my
girlfriend good morning and all those things, and after that it's off to
work." His motivation shows in his favourite quote, borrowed from
Shakespeare's play Henry VI: "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends"
(Part1, act III, scene III).
5. pvdabeel@gentoo.org
=========================
3. Heard in the community
=========================
Web forums
----------
Banned from OTW
* Bans from OTW[6]
6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-317818.html
gentoo-dev
----------
Virtuals revisited (Round 3)
Jason Stubbs[7] continues what he started a long time ago: "Back in my
quest to rid the tree of the evil virtuals and their plot to destroy my
mind. I think I've covered all bases with this one." For a longer
explanation of the issue please read the whole mail and the discussion it
generated.
7. jstubbs@gentoo.org
* Virtuals revisited [8]
8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26840
Kernel/Header upgrades & confusion
John Mylchreest[9] writes: "To all of you who have had issues with the
kernel upgrade, or have confusions over the whole process, etc; Can I
please point you towards
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/04/05/kernel_sources"
9. johnm@gentoo.org
* Kernel/Header upgrades & confusion [10]
* johnm's explanatory blog entry[11]
10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26808
11. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/04/05/kernel_sources
make.profile symlink problems
Some user who hadn't updated their Gentoo systems in a while may run into
troubles because the 1.4 profiles have been deprecated. This combined with
old versions of portage being unable to use cascading profiles makes
upgrading a lot more ... interesting.
* make.profile symlink problems [12]
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26892
=======================
4. Gentoo International
=======================
UK: Preparations for UK LWE
---------------------------
Rob Holland[13] has assumed the role of coordinator for the group of
UK-based Gentoo developers and supporters who are busy preparing for the
London edition of the Linux World Expo to be held in October. While
there's still plenty of time for preparations, the first information about
the event and a call for contributors[14] has already been posted: on a
freshly-baked Gentoo UK web server that doesn't hold much information yet,
but is scheduled to evolve into the UK's community web site for Gentoo
Linux.
13. tigger@gentoo.org
14. http://gentoo.linux.co.uk/events/linuxworld05/
Germany: Too late to save a drowning Gentoo
-------------------------------------------
It may look like a belated April fool's joke, but it's real -- and almost
usable... Markus Leonhardt, a long-term Gentoo user and Forum regular has
stripped his desktop PC of its case and lowered it into a basin full of
vegetable oil. His website[15] is entirely in German, but the pictures are
rather self-explaining.
15. http://www.markusleonhardt.de/oelbilder.html
Figure 4.1: Gentoo host
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050411_oil.jpg
Note: Photo courtesy of Markus Leonhardt
======================
5. Gentoo in the press
======================
NewsForge (4 April 2005)
------------------------
Jem Matzan had an article[16] about the state of OS development for 64-bit
architectures in NewsForge last week, giving a short introduction to the
benefits of the AMD64 and EM64T instruction set architectures. Generally
upbeat about the ease of development for the platform, he finds Linux and
FreeBSD maturing particularly well. "While at first it was difficult to
find many programs that would compile for 64-bit, today you can have a
complete desktop system that is entirely 64-bit without making too many
sacrifices," says the author, pointing to Gentoo Linux as one of the
sources for operational environments on 64-bit computers.
16.
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/30/1242206&tid=152&tid=2&tid=150&tid=74
SYS-CON (11 March 2005)
-----------------------
"When I was younger, I ran out to buy the latest Led Zeppelin album - now
I run out to get the latest build of Gentoo or Hula," reminisces Kevin
Bedell[17], the author of a piece[18] on open-source developers who he
thinks have become the same type of role models like the rock stars of his
youth. Quoting people who write software for commercial companies, but
secretely dream of becoming open source heroes, the article may have been
written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comments look mostly like
people are taking the idea quite seriously.
17. kevin@linuxworld.com
18. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/49072.htm
===========================
6. Moves, adds, and changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* Michael Tindal
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:
* Sven Vermeulen (swift) - Stepped down from the PR lead role
==================
7. Gentoo security
==================
Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues
---------------------------------------
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a
remote attacker to crash the application.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]
19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml
phpWebSite: Arbitrary PHP execution and path disclosure
-------------------------------------------------------
Remote attackers can upload and execute arbitrary PHP scripts, another
flaw reveals the full path of scripts.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]
20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-04.xml
xli, xloadimage: Multiple vulnerabilities
-----------------------------------------
xli and xloadimage are vulnerable to multiple issues, potentially leading
to the execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[21]
21. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
BidWatcher: Format string vulnerability
---------------------------------------
BidWatcher is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability, potentially
allowing arbitrary code execution.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[22]
22. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-06.xml
phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
------------------------------------
phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to command
execution, XSS issues and bypass of security restrictions.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[23]
23. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-07.xml
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[24]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 03 April 2005 and 10 April 2005, activity on the
site has resulted in:
24. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 798 new bugs during this period
* 471 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 23 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 8518 currently open bugs: 88 are labeled 'blocker', 247 are labeled
'critical', and 634 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Porting Team[25], with 51 closed bugs[26]
* Xavier Neys[27], with 21 closed bugs[28]
* Gentoo KDE team[29], with 21 closed bugs[30]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[31], with 16 closed bugs[32]
* Sven Vermeulen[33], with 13 closed bugs[34]
* Java team[35], with 12 closed bugs[36]
* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[37], with 11 closed bugs[38]
* Netmon Herd[39], with 11 closed bugs[40]
25. amd64@gentoo.org
26.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
27. neysx@gentoo.org
28.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@gentoo.org
29. kde@gentoo.org
30.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
31. base-system@gentoo.org
32.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
33. swift@gentoo.org
34.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=swift@gentoo.org
35. java@gentoo.org
36.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
37. toolchain@gentoo.org
38.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
39. netmon@gentoo.org
40.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Gentoo Sound Team[41], with 24 new bugs[42]
* Gentoo KDE team[43], with 14 new bugs[44]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[45], with 13 new bugs[46]
* media-video herd[47], with 11 new bugs[48]
* Desktop Misc. Team[49], with 11 new bugs[50]
* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[51], with 10 new
bugs[52]
* Text-Markup Team[53], with 9 new bugs[54]
* Mozilla Gentoo Team[55], with 9 new bugs[56]
41. sound@gentoo.org
42.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
43. kde@gentoo.org
44.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
45. gnome@gentoo.org
46.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
47. media-video@gentoo.org
48.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
49. desktop-misc@gentoo.org
50.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=desktop-misc@gentoo.org
51. kernel@gentoo.org
52.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=kernel@gentoo.org
53. text-markup@gentoo.org
54.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=text-markup@gentoo.org
55. mozilla@gentoo.org
56.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=mozilla@gentoo.org
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1. Gentoo News
==============
Web site face lift
------------------
Xavier Neys[1]has applied some cosmetic touches to the official Gentoo
website. While the redesign of the site is still being worked on, the list
of changes[2] reveals bug fixes for specific browser problems, the
introduction of justified text -- a much needed spring cleaning that irons
out some inconsistencies in the color scheme, prevents code samples from
running off the right edge of your screen, and includes other less visible
adjustments.
1. neysx@gentoo.org
2. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050408-cosmetics.xml
Just in case the updates have created problems for you rather than solved
the ones you may have had, please use Gentoo's bugzilla to file a bug
report.
Forum staff changes
-------------------
Great reshuffle of moderators and admins over at the Forums these days:
Administrator ian! (Christian Hartmann) left the Gentoo project two weeks
ago, and also retired from his Forums duties. Thanks again for all the
work he did! To compensate for ian! leaving, moderators amne (Wernfried
Haas), kallamej (Anders Hellgren) and pilla (Mauricio Lima Pilla) have
become administrators, so no one needs to worry about spammers not getting
banned or problems with inactive accounts not getting fixed in a timely
manner. tomk (Tom Knight) also joined the administrator team, mainly to
resume ian's work on improving the forums. Administrating one of the
largest user communities takes a lot of time, so it's good to hear that
two new global moderators, Maedhros (Jonathan Coome) and curtis119
(Michael Curtis Napier) have joined the moderator ranks: Maedhros is known
for being helpful in a lot of the support forums, curtis119 mostly for his
presence among the OTW community. no4b (Adrian "Abaddon" Czerniak) and
fallow (Michal Kaczmarski) retired from their jobs as moderators in the
Polish forum, being replaced by arsen (Andrzej Olender) and _troll_
(Przemysław Maciąg), and last but not least slick (Uwe Hoelzel) joined the
German forum moderator team. Welcome on board, Gentoomen!
========================
2. Developer of the week
========================
"Gentoo has the power to rule the world, but we're just not in the right
place yet." -- Jochen Maes (sejo)
---------------------------------
Figure 2.1: Jochen Maes aka SeJo
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050411_sejo.jpg
This week's special is SeJo, known in real life as Jochen Maes, one of our
Belgian developers (living in Leuven at the moment). He fills many roles
in Gentoo: Developer relations, Gentoo/Java recruiter, Java/PPC lead, GLSA
padawan, PPC security liaison (together with hansmi[3]). His Gentoo-work
is, obviously, recruiting, drafting GLSA, working on Java ebuilds, stable
marking security bugs and general bugsquatting. Asked what he considers to
be the biggest OpenSource Project that lives, he points to himself --
albeit that statement leaves his audience wondering under what conditions
the source code is made available.
3. hansmi@gentoo.org
The aquisition of the IBM-JRE/JDK license and adding it to the portage
tree as well as his work on porting Java 1.5 to PPC are the things he is
most proud of in Gentoo. His "normal" work is being done as a general
Linux specialist at the French IT-group Bull[4], where he does everything
even remotely Linux- and VMware-related. His impressive skills are
self-taught, but he attends an evening school to get a bachelor in
computer science, which should be done by next year. After that he intends
to study Japanese...
4. http://www.bull.com/
"Mozilla, Eclipse, pornview, vi, screen and definitely irssi!" are his
favourite applications, running mostly on his Powerbook G4 15" with 1.5GB
(!) of memory. Other hardware is a Pegasos PPC, two Sun Ultra10, a Sun
Ultra5 and a Compaq Proliant 3000R, hosted in fellow Belgian Gentoo
developer pvdabeels[5] basement. Although he seems to be unaware of life
outside the computer, he describes the beginning of a normal day as "when
I first get up I take a smoke and make some decaf. Then I kiss my
girlfriend good morning and all those things, and after that it's off to
work." His motivation shows in his favourite quote, borrowed from
Shakespeare's play Henry VI: "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends"
(Part1, act III, scene III).
5. pvdabeel@gentoo.org
=========================
3. Heard in the community
=========================
Web forums
----------
Banned from OTW
* Bans from OTW[6]
6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-317818.html
gentoo-dev
----------
Virtuals revisited (Round 3)
Jason Stubbs[7] continues what he started a long time ago: "Back in my
quest to rid the tree of the evil virtuals and their plot to destroy my
mind. I think I've covered all bases with this one." For a longer
explanation of the issue please read the whole mail and the discussion it
generated.
7. jstubbs@gentoo.org
* Virtuals revisited [8]
8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26840
Kernel/Header upgrades & confusion
John Mylchreest[9] writes: "To all of you who have had issues with the
kernel upgrade, or have confusions over the whole process, etc; Can I
please point you towards
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/04/05/kernel_sources"
9. johnm@gentoo.org
* Kernel/Header upgrades & confusion [10]
* johnm's explanatory blog entry[11]
10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26808
11. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/04/05/kernel_sources
make.profile symlink problems
Some user who hadn't updated their Gentoo systems in a while may run into
troubles because the 1.4 profiles have been deprecated. This combined with
old versions of portage being unable to use cascading profiles makes
upgrading a lot more ... interesting.
* make.profile symlink problems [12]
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26892
=======================
4. Gentoo International
=======================
UK: Preparations for UK LWE
---------------------------
Rob Holland[13] has assumed the role of coordinator for the group of
UK-based Gentoo developers and supporters who are busy preparing for the
London edition of the Linux World Expo to be held in October. While
there's still plenty of time for preparations, the first information about
the event and a call for contributors[14] has already been posted: on a
freshly-baked Gentoo UK web server that doesn't hold much information yet,
but is scheduled to evolve into the UK's community web site for Gentoo
Linux.
13. tigger@gentoo.org
14. http://gentoo.linux.co.uk/events/linuxworld05/
Germany: Too late to save a drowning Gentoo
-------------------------------------------
It may look like a belated April fool's joke, but it's real -- and almost
usable... Markus Leonhardt, a long-term Gentoo user and Forum regular has
stripped his desktop PC of its case and lowered it into a basin full of
vegetable oil. His website[15] is entirely in German, but the pictures are
rather self-explaining.
15. http://www.markusleonhardt.de/oelbilder.html
Figure 4.1: Gentoo host
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050411_oil.jpg
Note: Photo courtesy of Markus Leonhardt
======================
5. Gentoo in the press
======================
NewsForge (4 April 2005)
------------------------
Jem Matzan had an article[16] about the state of OS development for 64-bit
architectures in NewsForge last week, giving a short introduction to the
benefits of the AMD64 and EM64T instruction set architectures. Generally
upbeat about the ease of development for the platform, he finds Linux and
FreeBSD maturing particularly well. "While at first it was difficult to
find many programs that would compile for 64-bit, today you can have a
complete desktop system that is entirely 64-bit without making too many
sacrifices," says the author, pointing to Gentoo Linux as one of the
sources for operational environments on 64-bit computers.
16.
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/30/1242206&tid=152&tid=2&tid=150&tid=74
SYS-CON (11 March 2005)
-----------------------
"When I was younger, I ran out to buy the latest Led Zeppelin album - now
I run out to get the latest build of Gentoo or Hula," reminisces Kevin
Bedell[17], the author of a piece[18] on open-source developers who he
thinks have become the same type of role models like the rock stars of his
youth. Quoting people who write software for commercial companies, but
secretely dream of becoming open source heroes, the article may have been
written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comments look mostly like
people are taking the idea quite seriously.
17. kevin@linuxworld.com
18. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/49072.htm
===========================
6. Moves, adds, and changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* Michael Tindal
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:
* Sven Vermeulen (swift) - Stepped down from the PR lead role
==================
7. Gentoo security
==================
Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues
---------------------------------------
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a
remote attacker to crash the application.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]
19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml
phpWebSite: Arbitrary PHP execution and path disclosure
-------------------------------------------------------
Remote attackers can upload and execute arbitrary PHP scripts, another
flaw reveals the full path of scripts.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]
20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-04.xml
xli, xloadimage: Multiple vulnerabilities
-----------------------------------------
xli and xloadimage are vulnerable to multiple issues, potentially leading
to the execution of arbitrary code.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[21]
21. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml
BidWatcher: Format string vulnerability
---------------------------------------
BidWatcher is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability, potentially
allowing arbitrary code execution.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[22]
22. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-06.xml
phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities
------------------------------------
phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to command
execution, XSS issues and bypass of security restrictions.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[23]
23. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-07.xml
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[24]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 03 April 2005 and 10 April 2005, activity on the
site has resulted in:
24. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 798 new bugs during this period
* 471 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 23 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 8518 currently open bugs: 88 are labeled 'blocker', 247 are labeled
'critical', and 634 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Porting Team[25], with 51 closed bugs[26]
* Xavier Neys[27], with 21 closed bugs[28]
* Gentoo KDE team[29], with 21 closed bugs[30]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[31], with 16 closed bugs[32]
* Sven Vermeulen[33], with 13 closed bugs[34]
* Java team[35], with 12 closed bugs[36]
* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[37], with 11 closed bugs[38]
* Netmon Herd[39], with 11 closed bugs[40]
25. amd64@gentoo.org
26.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
27. neysx@gentoo.org
28.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@gentoo.org
29. kde@gentoo.org
30.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
31. base-system@gentoo.org
32.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
33. swift@gentoo.org
34.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=swift@gentoo.org
35. java@gentoo.org
36.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
37. toolchain@gentoo.org
38.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
39. netmon@gentoo.org
40.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Gentoo Sound Team[41], with 24 new bugs[42]
* Gentoo KDE team[43], with 14 new bugs[44]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[45], with 13 new bugs[46]
* media-video herd[47], with 11 new bugs[48]
* Desktop Misc. Team[49], with 11 new bugs[50]
* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[51], with 10 new
bugs[52]
* Text-Markup Team[53], with 9 new bugs[54]
* Mozilla Gentoo Team[55], with 9 new bugs[56]
41. sound@gentoo.org
42.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
43. kde@gentoo.org
44.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
45. gnome@gentoo.org
46.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
47. media-video@gentoo.org
48.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
49. desktop-misc@gentoo.org
50.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=desktop-misc@gentoo.org
51. kernel@gentoo.org
52.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=kernel@gentoo.org
53. text-markup@gentoo.org
54.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=text-markup@gentoo.org
55. mozilla@gentoo.org
56.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=mozilla@gentoo.org
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