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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 13 February 2006.
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1. Gentoo news
==============
eselect 1.0 released
--------------------
Version 1.0 of eselect[1], the modular configuration framework, has been
released. For developers, eselect simplifies the creation of -config and
-update tools in the same way that the original ebuild simplified building
software. For end users, eselect provides a more consistent interface and,
as a side effect, implements part of GLEP 24[2] by making it easy to find
available configuration tools. Interested users may install
app-admin/eselect, if they do not have it already. There is also a user
guide[3] and a developer guide[4] available online.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/
2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0024.html
3. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/user-guide.xml
4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/dev-guide.xml
=======================
2. Gentoo international
=======================
Poland: Fluffy Gentoo
---------------------
Plusiaczek Linux[5] (roughly translates to "fluffy" in English) has been
released. Plusiaczek is an i686 LiveCD based on Gentoo and designed as a
general purpose distro for Polish Linux users. It ships with KDE 3.5.1,
packing only what the author considers its most useful applications, and a
set of others like Wine, k3b, Koffice, Scribus, Frozen-bubble, PHP, MySQL,
Postgres and XFCE. The 577MB ISO can be downloaded from sourceforge[6], is
entirely in Polish, but can be "remastered" to use any other language.
Author Piotr Maliński can be contacted by email[7] or via the web site (of
which an English version[8] is available, too).
5. http://www.linux.rk.edu.pl
6.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=152689&package_id=179375
7. riklaunim@gmail.com
8. http://www.english.rk.edu.pl
======================
3. Gentoo in the press
======================
Holehan (10 February 2006)
--------------------------
Florian Grässle of OpenUsability.org[9] reports about a major revamp for
Karim Ryde's Kuroo, the KDE Portage GUI project[10]. It's undergone
several changes that make it look much more KDEsque, and includes a number
of new features, too.
9. http://openusability.org/
10.
http://holehan.blogspot.com/2006/02/kuroo-gui-for-gentoos-portage-meets.html
=========================
4. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Mark Kowarsky (mark_alec) - Forums
* Scott Stoddard (deltacow) - AMD64
* Josh Saddler (nightmorph) - Documentation
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* None this week
==================
5. Gentoo Security
==================
ADOdb: PostgresSQL command injection
------------------------------------
ADOdb is vulnerable to SQL injections if used in conjunction with a
PostgreSQL database.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-02.xml
Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities
--------------------------------
Apache can be exploited for cross-site scripting attacks and is vulnerable
to a Denial of Service attack.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-03.xml
===========
6. Bugzilla
===========
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[13]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 05 February 2006 and 12 February 2006, activity
on the site has resulted in:
13. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 894 new bugs during this period
* 476 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 9272 currently open bugs: 77 are labeled 'blocker', 153 are labeled
'critical', and 522 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo Games[14], with 29 closed bugs[15]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[16], with 22 closed bugs[17]
* Stefano Rossi[18], with 16 closed bugs[19]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[20], with 16 closed bugs[21]
* AMD64 Porting Team[22], with 14 closed bugs[23]
* Printing Team[24], with 13 closed bugs[25]
* Text-Markup Team[26], with 11 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Sound Team[28], with 11 closed bugs[29]
14. games@gentoo.org
15.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
16. base-system@gentoo.org
17.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
18. so@gentoo.org
19.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=so@gentoo.org
20. gnome@gentoo.org
21.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
22. amd64@gentoo.org
23.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
24. printing@gentoo.org
25.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=printing@gentoo.org
26. text-markup@gentoo.org
27.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=text-markup@gentoo.org
28. sound@gentoo.org
29.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Default Assignee for New Packages[30], with 38 new bugs[31]
* AMD64 Porting Team[32], with 23 new bugs[33]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[34], with 14 new bugs[35]
* Gentoo Sound Team[36], with 13 new bugs[37]
* Gentoo Games[38], with 8 new bugs[39]
* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[40], with 7 new bugs[41]
* Gentoo KDE team[42], with 7 new bugs[43]
* Mozilla Gentoo Team[44], with 6 new bugs[45]
30. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
31.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
32. amd64@gentoo.org
33.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
34. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
35.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
36. sound@gentoo.org
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
38. games@gentoo.org
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
40. toolchain@gentoo.org
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
42. kde@gentoo.org
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
44. mozilla@gentoo.org
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=mozilla@gentoo.org
===============
7. GWN feedback
===============
Please send us your feedback[46] and help make the GWN better.
46. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
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* Danish[47]
* Dutch[48]
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* Japanese[53]
* Italian[54]
* Polish[55]
* Portuguese (Brazil)[56]
* Portuguese (Portugal)[57]
* Russian[58]
* Spanish[59]
* Turkish[60]
47. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml
48. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml
49. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
50. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml
51. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml
52. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ko/gwn/gwn.xml
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57. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml
58. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml
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Ulrich Plate <plate@gentoo.org> - Editor
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> - Author
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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 13 February 2006.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
==============
1. Gentoo news
==============
eselect 1.0 released
--------------------
Version 1.0 of eselect[1], the modular configuration framework, has been
released. For developers, eselect simplifies the creation of -config and
-update tools in the same way that the original ebuild simplified building
software. For end users, eselect provides a more consistent interface and,
as a side effect, implements part of GLEP 24[2] by making it easy to find
available configuration tools. Interested users may install
app-admin/eselect, if they do not have it already. There is also a user
guide[3] and a developer guide[4] available online.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/
2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0024.html
3. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/user-guide.xml
4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/dev-guide.xml
=======================
2. Gentoo international
=======================
Poland: Fluffy Gentoo
---------------------
Plusiaczek Linux[5] (roughly translates to "fluffy" in English) has been
released. Plusiaczek is an i686 LiveCD based on Gentoo and designed as a
general purpose distro for Polish Linux users. It ships with KDE 3.5.1,
packing only what the author considers its most useful applications, and a
set of others like Wine, k3b, Koffice, Scribus, Frozen-bubble, PHP, MySQL,
Postgres and XFCE. The 577MB ISO can be downloaded from sourceforge[6], is
entirely in Polish, but can be "remastered" to use any other language.
Author Piotr Maliński can be contacted by email[7] or via the web site (of
which an English version[8] is available, too).
5. http://www.linux.rk.edu.pl
6.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=152689&package_id=179375
7. riklaunim@gmail.com
8. http://www.english.rk.edu.pl
======================
3. Gentoo in the press
======================
Holehan (10 February 2006)
--------------------------
Florian Grässle of OpenUsability.org[9] reports about a major revamp for
Karim Ryde's Kuroo, the KDE Portage GUI project[10]. It's undergone
several changes that make it look much more KDEsque, and includes a number
of new features, too.
9. http://openusability.org/
10.
http://holehan.blogspot.com/2006/02/kuroo-gui-for-gentoos-portage-meets.html
=========================
4. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Mark Kowarsky (mark_alec) - Forums
* Scott Stoddard (deltacow) - AMD64
* Josh Saddler (nightmorph) - Documentation
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* None this week
==================
5. Gentoo Security
==================
ADOdb: PostgresSQL command injection
------------------------------------
ADOdb is vulnerable to SQL injections if used in conjunction with a
PostgreSQL database.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-02.xml
Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities
--------------------------------
Apache can be exploited for cross-site scripting attacks and is vulnerable
to a Denial of Service attack.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-03.xml
===========
6. Bugzilla
===========
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[13]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 05 February 2006 and 12 February 2006, activity
on the site has resulted in:
13. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 894 new bugs during this period
* 476 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 9272 currently open bugs: 77 are labeled 'blocker', 153 are labeled
'critical', and 522 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo Games[14], with 29 closed bugs[15]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[16], with 22 closed bugs[17]
* Stefano Rossi[18], with 16 closed bugs[19]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[20], with 16 closed bugs[21]
* AMD64 Porting Team[22], with 14 closed bugs[23]
* Printing Team[24], with 13 closed bugs[25]
* Text-Markup Team[26], with 11 closed bugs[27]
* Gentoo Sound Team[28], with 11 closed bugs[29]
14. games@gentoo.org
15.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
16. base-system@gentoo.org
17.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
18. so@gentoo.org
19.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=so@gentoo.org
20. gnome@gentoo.org
21.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
22. amd64@gentoo.org
23.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
24. printing@gentoo.org
25.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=printing@gentoo.org
26. text-markup@gentoo.org
27.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=text-markup@gentoo.org
28. sound@gentoo.org
29.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Default Assignee for New Packages[30], with 38 new bugs[31]
* AMD64 Porting Team[32], with 23 new bugs[33]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[34], with 14 new bugs[35]
* Gentoo Sound Team[36], with 13 new bugs[37]
* Gentoo Games[38], with 8 new bugs[39]
* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[40], with 7 new bugs[41]
* Gentoo KDE team[42], with 7 new bugs[43]
* Mozilla Gentoo Team[44], with 6 new bugs[45]
30. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
31.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
32. amd64@gentoo.org
33.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
34. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
35.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
36. sound@gentoo.org
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
38. games@gentoo.org
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
40. toolchain@gentoo.org
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
42. kde@gentoo.org
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
44. mozilla@gentoo.org
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=mozilla@gentoo.org
===============
7. GWN feedback
===============
Please send us your feedback[46] and help make the GWN better.
46. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org
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* Dutch[48]
* English[49]
* German[50]
* French[51]
* Korean[52]
* Japanese[53]
* Italian[54]
* Polish[55]
* Portuguese (Brazil)[56]
* Portuguese (Portugal)[57]
* Russian[58]
* Spanish[59]
* Turkish[60]
47. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml
48. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml
49. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
50. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml
51. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml
52. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ko/gwn/gwn.xml
53. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml
54. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml
55. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml
56. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml
57. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml
58. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml
59. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml
60. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml
Ulrich Plate <plate@gentoo.org> - Editor
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> - Author
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