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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070205-newsletter.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 5 February 2007.
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1. Gentoo News
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KDE team needs your help
------------------------
Due to inactivity and other responsibilities within Gentoo's KDE team[1],
they are currently seeking out new recruits from the community. Interested
parties who are currently developers can add themselves to the herd and
start squashing bugs. Interested members of the community can also help. If
you want to help out, contact the KDE team[2] for more information.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde
2. kde@gentoo.org
Upcoming removal of mail-mta/qmail
----------------------------------
The Gentoo qmail team[3] would like to announce the removal of
mail-mta/qmail. It has been superseded by mail-mta/netqmail which is stable
on the same architectures as the older mail-mta/qmail. The new ebuild,
mail-mta/netqmail, consists of only upstream provided patches[4]. One of the
reasons for the switch is the massive cleanup efforts that have made the
newer ebuild. Users wanting custom patches can use the QMAIL_PATCH_DIR
variable in make.conf, specifying a directory containing patches to be
applied before compilation. Be aware that the qmail team will not support
installations using custom patches.
3. qmail-bugs@gentoo.org
4. http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/
The mail-mta/qmail package will be removed on or around April 15, 2007,
after being masked on or around March 15, 2007. Please migrate to the new
package before this date.
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2. Developer of the week
========================
Matthias Schwarzott, aka zzam
-----------------------------
Figure 2.1: Matthias Schwarzott, aka zzam
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20070205_zzam.jpg
Matthias Schwarzott[5] is a 25 year old developer. He lives in Erlangen,
Germany with his girlfriend Charlotte. Matthias studies technomathematics,
which is basically an expensive word for mathematics and technology, at the
Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. There he studies Java
programming, working with algorithms, programming computer graphics in C++,
and Electrical Engineering.
5. zzam@gentoo.org
Matthias has worked at Siemens, where he was a C/C++ programmer, and
currently works part-time as a Systems Administrator for a company that
operates web games. When Matthias is done with his studies, he hopes to be
able to start working as a programmer.
Though he's pretty busy with school, work, and Gentoo, Matthias still finds
some free time for his hobbies. He enjoys classic dancing (e.g.
cha-cha/waltz/etc.), cooking, and exercising. Matthias’ interest in dancing
developed at school, where he took dance classes, and was rekindled when he
and his girlfriend started taking classes together. His favorite recipes
include streusel cake and pizza.
Matthias started using Linux in the summer of '97 after growing tired of
Windows 3.11. He read about SUSE 5.0 and decided to give it a try, later
moving on to Debian, and finally settling on Gentoo in the 1.4 days. After
buying a DVB card to setup a VDR box, he started to gain interest in
becoming a Gentoo developer. He used to compile programs by hand, then tried
using ebuilds, and started sending his own contributions to Stefan
Schweizer[6]. After his recruitment process, zzam became the VDR project
lead. He reflects back upon the substantial growth the VDR project has
enjoyed and is anxious for what the future may bring. He is looking for
active contributors to implement patches and help maintain the existing
patch sets. He attributes his developer drive to the simple fact that he
enjoys helping users.
6. genstef@gentoo.org
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3. Heard in the community
=========================
planet.gentoo.org
-----------------
More fancy desktops: Metisse
Figure 3.1: Metisse X-Server screenshot
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20070205_metisse.jpg
Hanno Boeck[7] recently added Metisse[8] to his subversion overlay. Metisse
is the answer from Mandriva[9] to compiz and the whole 3D-desktop craze.
Metisse has some features that give it the ability to transform the shape of
windows, including rotating, scaling, and zooming. It is even possible to
make a parallelogram from a window! Mettisse runs on its own X server, which
is luminocity/Xgl-like and a modified variant of fvwm.
7. hanno@gentoo.org
8. http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
9. http://www.mandriva.com
Currently, Metisse only works on x86, but upstream is working on support for
amd64 and other architectures. A new version should be released soon to
resolve some of the known bugs. For more information on where to get the
sources, and how to start the environment, please read Hanno's original blog
post.
* http://www.hboeck.de/item/433
* http://www.mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse/download
gentoo-user
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deleted ._cfg files
Kamen TOMOV was worried because he had deleted his ._cfg files from a recent
update. The answer was the use of the --noconfmem option to emerge. With
--noconfmem, portage will "forget" that it has already made a ._cfg file for
a CONFIG_PROTECT file, thus causing portage to reinstall the ._cfg file
needed for updating.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_108135.xml
Migrating gentoo to a new machine
Seo Boon had happily used Gentoo on his old notebook for some time and over
time had developed a set of packages installed that he very much liked.
However, he recently got a shiny new notebook and on that notebook he wanted
the exact same package set he had on the old notebook since it had served
him so well. He soon figured out though that a simple copy of
/var/lib/portage/world from the old machine to the new one did not work. The
list eventually settled on taking the old world file and running the
following on the new machine.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.1 |
| Duplicating world |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # emerge -va --noreplace $(cat old_world_file) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This command will install all of the files in the old_world_file while also
adding them to the world of the new machine. The --noreplace was added in
case some packages had already been installed, in order to avoid repeating
one's self.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_108131.xml
gentoo-dev
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[RFC] Maintainer Timeout
Timothy Redaelli opened a discussion about perhaps adding some official
"Maintainer Timeout" in which there would be an official amount of time that
a maintainer of a package would have to respond to a bug report before any
developer would be able to jump in and fix the bug themselves. While an
interesting idea, consensus seemed to center around a post by Grant Goodyear
describing the proper application of common sense. Many devs agreed that
they have mixed feeling on the ownership of ebuilds, and that if a developer
can fix a problem and know they can do so within the realm of using their
common sense to not make a problem worse, that they should go ahead and fix
the problem.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_142348.xml
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4. Gentoo in the press
======================
IBM DeveloperWorks (31 Jan 2007)
--------------------------------
Martyn Honeyford writes about how to accurately measure the amount of memory
in use on a Linux system, as well as giving practical advice on how to
reduce your memory requirements. In the article, Gentoo is recommended for
the ability to recompile applications with user-specified CFLAGS to reduce
memory usage, and for USE flags that can greatly reduce the size of needed
libraries.
* http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-memory.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07LinuxMemory
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5. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* none this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Dean Stephens (desultory) forums
* Martin Jackson (mjolnir) netmon team
* Samuli Suominen (drac) Xfce team
* Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali) Scientific applications
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* none this week
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6. Gentoo Security
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KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability
--------------------------------------
KSirc is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
ELinks: Arbitrary Samba command execution
-----------------------------------------
ELinks does not properly validate "smb://" URLs, making it vulnerable to the
execution of arbitrary Samba commands.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-27.xml
thttpd: Unauthenticated remote file access
------------------------------------------
The default configuration of the Gentoo thttpd package potentially allows
unauthenticated access to system files when used with newer versions of
baselayout.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-28.xml
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7. Gentoo package moves
=======================
This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree
and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be
removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations,
including the Treecleaners[13] and various developers. Most packages which
are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care
and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
13. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners
Removals:
---------
Package: Removal date: Contact:
net-www/gplflash 31 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[14]
media-video/dxr2-driver 01 Feb 2007 Steve Dibb[15]
net-analyzer/zodiac 01 Feb 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
games-fps/doomlegacy 02 Feb 2007 Tristan Heaven[17]
net-p2p/gnome-btdownload 02 Feb 2007 Raúl Porcel[14]
games-kids/matritsa 03 Feb 2007 Tristan Heaven[17]
app-misc/nomad-tool 03 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[18]
dev-ada/adaopengl 03 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[18]
dev-ada/adabindx 03 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[18]
x11-misc/gtk2mp 04 Feb 2007 Andrej Kacian[19]
net-mail/base64 04 Feb 2007 Andrej Kacian[19]
net-misc/tulip-devel 04 Feb 2007 Rajiv Aaron Manglani[20]
media-radio/ax25-tools 04 Feb 2007 Charlie Shepherd[21]
14. armin76@gentoo.org
15. beandog@gentoo.org
16. jokey@gentoo.org
17. nyhm@gentoo.org
18. george@gentoo.org
19. ticho@gentoo.org
20. rajiv@gentoo.org
21. masterdriverz@gentoo.org
Additions:
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Package: Addition date: Contact:
dev-php5/xcache[22] 29 Jan 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
dev-perl/Cisco-IPPhone[23] 30 Jan 2007 Tony Vroon[24]
media-libs/libdjconsole[25] 30 Jan 2007 Alexis Ballier[26]
xfce-extra/thunar-volman[27] 31 Jan 2007 Peter Weller[28]
games-fps/ut2004-hamsterbash[29] 31 Jan 2007 Chris Gianelloni[30]
games-fps/ut2004-ultraduel[31] 31 Jan 2007 Chris Gianelloni[30]
dev-games/wfmath[32] 01 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[33]
dev-games/mercator[34] 01 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[33]
games-server/cyphesis[35] 01 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[33]
dev-python/pysnmp-mibs[36] 02 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
dev-python/pysnmp-apps[38] 02 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
app-emacs/org-mode[39] 02 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[40]
games-arcade/jardinains[41] 02 Feb 2007 Gustavo Felisberto[42]
dev-lang/interprolog[43] 02 Feb 2007 Keri Harris[44]
app-text/tesseract[45] 02 Feb 2007 Patrick McLean[46]
sys-apps/chname[47] 03 Feb 2007 Michael Marineau[48]
dev-python/pyinotify[49] 03 Feb 2007 Bryan Østergaard[50]
www-servers/mongrel_cluster[51] 03 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
net-analyzer/ifstatus[53] 03 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
dev-libs/libmcs[54] 03 Feb 2007 Tony Vroon[24]
net-analyzer/ipband[55] 03 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
dev-ruby/wirble[56] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/ruby-inline[57] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/radius[58] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/radiant[59] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/hpricot[60] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-python/sexy-python[61] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
media-sound/exaile[63] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
x11-apps/amlc[64] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes[65] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
16. jokey@gentoo.org
22. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-php5;name=xcache
23. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Cisco-IPPhone
24. chainsaw@gentoo.org
25. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-libs;name=libdjconsole
26. aballier@gentoo.org
27. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=thunar-volman
28. welp@gentoo.org
29. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-fps;name=ut2004-hamsterbash
30. wolf31o2@gentoo.org
31. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-fps;name=ut2004-ultraduel
32. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-games;name=wfmath
33. tupone@gentoo.org
34. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-games;name=mercator
35. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-server;name=cyphesis
36. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pysnmp-mibs
37. mjolnir@gentoo.org
38. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pysnmp-apps
39. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-emacs;name=org-mode
40. opfer@gentoo.org
41. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-arcade;name=jardinains
42. humpback@gentoo.org
43. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-lang;name=interprolog
44. keri@gentoo.org
45. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-text;name=tesseract
46. chutzpah@gentoo.org
47. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-apps;name=chname
48. marineam@gentoo.org
49. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pyinotify
50. kloeri@gentoo.org
51. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-servers;name=mongrel_cluster
52. pclouds@gentoo.org
53. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=ifstatus
54. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-libs;name=libmcs
55. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=ipband
56. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=wirble
57. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-inline
58. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=radius
59. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=radiant
60. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=hpricot
61. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=sexy-python
62. drac@gentoo.org
63. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=exaile
64. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=x11-apps;name=amlc
65. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=xfce4-eyes
Last Rites:
-----------
Package: Removal date: Contact:
sys-cluster/gomd[66] 17 Feb 2007 Daniel Drake[67]
sys-cluster/openmosix-3dmon[68] 17 Feb 2007 Daniel Drake[67]
dev-embedded/gpsim-led[69] 01 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-embedded/gpsim-logic[71] 01 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
net-analyzer/prelude-nids[72] 01 Mar 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
net-analyzer/prelude-nagios[73] 02 Mar 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
media-sound/choad[74] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/gradio[75] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/liteamp[76] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/pd-cyclone[77] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/mpio[78] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/psmix[79] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/sulu[80] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-video/ks3switch[81] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
sys-apps/s3switch[82] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/yserver[83] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
app-admin/kcmgrunlevel[84] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gtk[85] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gconf[86] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gdkimlib[87] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gdkpixbuf[88] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-libart[89] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
www-client/ci[90] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
www-client/gorua[91] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
app-portage/kentoo[92] 04 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
www-client/khttrack[93] 04 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ada/garlic[94] 04 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
16. jokey@gentoo.org
66. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-cluster;name=gomd
67. dsd@gentoo.org
68. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-cluster;name=openmosix-3dmon
69. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-embedded;name=gpsim-led
70. flameeyes@gentoo.org
71. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-embedded;name=gpsim-logic
72. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=prelude-nids
73. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=prelude-nagios
74. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=choad
75. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=gradio
76. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=liteamp
77. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=pd-cyclone
78. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=mpio
79. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=psmix
80. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=sulu
81. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-video;name=ks3switch
82. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-apps;name=s3switch
83. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=yserver
84. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-admin;name=kcmgrunlevel
85. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gtk
86. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gconf
87. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gdkimlib
88. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gdkpixbuf
89. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-libart
90. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-client;name=ci
91. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-client;name=gorua
92. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-portage;name=kentoo
93. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-client;name=khttrack
94. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ada;name=garlic
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8. Bugzilla
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Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[95]) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development
team. Between 28 January 2007 and 04 February 2007, activity on the site has
resulted in:
95. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 702 new bugs during this period
* 537 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 33 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
* 238 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this
period
* 118 bugs marked as duplicates during this period
Of the 10485 currently open bugs: 18 are labeled 'blocker', 112 are labeled
'critical', and 441 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Project[96], with 51 closed bugs[97]
* Gentoo Games[98], with 26 closed bugs[99]
* Java team[100], with 23 closed bugs[101]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[102], with 22 closed bugs[103]
* Gentoo KDE team[2], with 19 closed bugs[104]
* Netmon Herd[105], with 18 closed bugs[106]
* Portage team[107], with 14 closed bugs[108]
* Gentoo Sound Team[109], with 12 closed bugs[110]
2. kde@gentoo.org
96. amd64@gentoo.org
97. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
98. games@gentoo.org
99. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
100. java@gentoo.org
101. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
102. gnome@gentoo.org
103. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
104. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
105. netmon@gentoo.org
106. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
107. dev-portage@gentoo.org
108. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
109. sound@gentoo.org
110. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&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[111], with 29 new bugs[112]
* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[113], with 13 new bugs[114]
* Gentoo KDE team[2], with 10 new bugs[115]
* media-video herd[116], with 9 new bugs[117]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[118], with 8 new bugs[119]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[120], with 7 new bugs[121]
* Gentoo Games[98], with 7 new bugs[122]
* AMD64 Project[96], with 7 new bugs[123]
2. kde@gentoo.org
96. amd64@gentoo.org
98. games@gentoo.org
111. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
112. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
113. toolchain@gentoo.org
114. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
115. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
116. media-video@gentoo.org
117. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
118. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
119. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
120. x11@gentoo.org
121. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
122. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
123. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
===============
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 5 February 2007.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
==============
1. Gentoo News
==============
KDE team needs your help
------------------------
Due to inactivity and other responsibilities within Gentoo's KDE team[1],
they are currently seeking out new recruits from the community. Interested
parties who are currently developers can add themselves to the herd and
start squashing bugs. Interested members of the community can also help. If
you want to help out, contact the KDE team[2] for more information.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde
2. kde@gentoo.org
Upcoming removal of mail-mta/qmail
----------------------------------
The Gentoo qmail team[3] would like to announce the removal of
mail-mta/qmail. It has been superseded by mail-mta/netqmail which is stable
on the same architectures as the older mail-mta/qmail. The new ebuild,
mail-mta/netqmail, consists of only upstream provided patches[4]. One of the
reasons for the switch is the massive cleanup efforts that have made the
newer ebuild. Users wanting custom patches can use the QMAIL_PATCH_DIR
variable in make.conf, specifying a directory containing patches to be
applied before compilation. Be aware that the qmail team will not support
installations using custom patches.
3. qmail-bugs@gentoo.org
4. http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/
The mail-mta/qmail package will be removed on or around April 15, 2007,
after being masked on or around March 15, 2007. Please migrate to the new
package before this date.
========================
2. Developer of the week
========================
Matthias Schwarzott, aka zzam
-----------------------------
Figure 2.1: Matthias Schwarzott, aka zzam
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20070205_zzam.jpg
Matthias Schwarzott[5] is a 25 year old developer. He lives in Erlangen,
Germany with his girlfriend Charlotte. Matthias studies technomathematics,
which is basically an expensive word for mathematics and technology, at the
Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. There he studies Java
programming, working with algorithms, programming computer graphics in C++,
and Electrical Engineering.
5. zzam@gentoo.org
Matthias has worked at Siemens, where he was a C/C++ programmer, and
currently works part-time as a Systems Administrator for a company that
operates web games. When Matthias is done with his studies, he hopes to be
able to start working as a programmer.
Though he's pretty busy with school, work, and Gentoo, Matthias still finds
some free time for his hobbies. He enjoys classic dancing (e.g.
cha-cha/waltz/etc.), cooking, and exercising. Matthias’ interest in dancing
developed at school, where he took dance classes, and was rekindled when he
and his girlfriend started taking classes together. His favorite recipes
include streusel cake and pizza.
Matthias started using Linux in the summer of '97 after growing tired of
Windows 3.11. He read about SUSE 5.0 and decided to give it a try, later
moving on to Debian, and finally settling on Gentoo in the 1.4 days. After
buying a DVB card to setup a VDR box, he started to gain interest in
becoming a Gentoo developer. He used to compile programs by hand, then tried
using ebuilds, and started sending his own contributions to Stefan
Schweizer[6]. After his recruitment process, zzam became the VDR project
lead. He reflects back upon the substantial growth the VDR project has
enjoyed and is anxious for what the future may bring. He is looking for
active contributors to implement patches and help maintain the existing
patch sets. He attributes his developer drive to the simple fact that he
enjoys helping users.
6. genstef@gentoo.org
=========================
3. Heard in the community
=========================
planet.gentoo.org
-----------------
More fancy desktops: Metisse
Figure 3.1: Metisse X-Server screenshot
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20070205_metisse.jpg
Hanno Boeck[7] recently added Metisse[8] to his subversion overlay. Metisse
is the answer from Mandriva[9] to compiz and the whole 3D-desktop craze.
Metisse has some features that give it the ability to transform the shape of
windows, including rotating, scaling, and zooming. It is even possible to
make a parallelogram from a window! Mettisse runs on its own X server, which
is luminocity/Xgl-like and a modified variant of fvwm.
7. hanno@gentoo.org
8. http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
9. http://www.mandriva.com
Currently, Metisse only works on x86, but upstream is working on support for
amd64 and other architectures. A new version should be released soon to
resolve some of the known bugs. For more information on where to get the
sources, and how to start the environment, please read Hanno's original blog
post.
* http://www.hboeck.de/item/433
* http://www.mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse/download
gentoo-user
-----------
deleted ._cfg files
Kamen TOMOV was worried because he had deleted his ._cfg files from a recent
update. The answer was the use of the --noconfmem option to emerge. With
--noconfmem, portage will "forget" that it has already made a ._cfg file for
a CONFIG_PROTECT file, thus causing portage to reinstall the ._cfg file
needed for updating.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_108135.xml
Migrating gentoo to a new machine
Seo Boon had happily used Gentoo on his old notebook for some time and over
time had developed a set of packages installed that he very much liked.
However, he recently got a shiny new notebook and on that notebook he wanted
the exact same package set he had on the old notebook since it had served
him so well. He soon figured out though that a simple copy of
/var/lib/portage/world from the old machine to the new one did not work. The
list eventually settled on taking the old world file and running the
following on the new machine.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 3.1 |
| Duplicating world |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # emerge -va --noreplace $(cat old_world_file) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This command will install all of the files in the old_world_file while also
adding them to the world of the new machine. The --noreplace was added in
case some packages had already been installed, in order to avoid repeating
one's self.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_108131.xml
gentoo-dev
----------
[RFC] Maintainer Timeout
Timothy Redaelli opened a discussion about perhaps adding some official
"Maintainer Timeout" in which there would be an official amount of time that
a maintainer of a package would have to respond to a bug report before any
developer would be able to jump in and fix the bug themselves. While an
interesting idea, consensus seemed to center around a post by Grant Goodyear
describing the proper application of common sense. Many devs agreed that
they have mixed feeling on the ownership of ebuilds, and that if a developer
can fix a problem and know they can do so within the realm of using their
common sense to not make a problem worse, that they should go ahead and fix
the problem.
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_142348.xml
======================
4. Gentoo in the press
======================
IBM DeveloperWorks (31 Jan 2007)
--------------------------------
Martyn Honeyford writes about how to accurately measure the amount of memory
in use on a Linux system, as well as giving practical advice on how to
reduce your memory requirements. In the article, Gentoo is recommended for
the ability to recompile applications with user-specified CFLAGS to reduce
memory usage, and for USE flags that can greatly reduce the size of needed
libraries.
* http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-memory.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07LinuxMemory
=========================
5. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* none this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Dean Stephens (desultory) forums
* Martin Jackson (mjolnir) netmon team
* Samuli Suominen (drac) Xfce team
* Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali) Scientific applications
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* none this week
==================
6. Gentoo Security
==================
KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability
--------------------------------------
KSirc is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
ELinks: Arbitrary Samba command execution
-----------------------------------------
ELinks does not properly validate "smb://" URLs, making it vulnerable to the
execution of arbitrary Samba commands.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-27.xml
thttpd: Unauthenticated remote file access
------------------------------------------
The default configuration of the Gentoo thttpd package potentially allows
unauthenticated access to system files when used with newer versions of
baselayout.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12]
12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-28.xml
=======================
7. Gentoo package moves
=======================
This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree
and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be
removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations,
including the Treecleaners[13] and various developers. Most packages which
are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care
and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
13. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners
Removals:
---------
Package: Removal date: Contact:
net-www/gplflash 31 Jan 2007 Raúl Porcel[14]
media-video/dxr2-driver 01 Feb 2007 Steve Dibb[15]
net-analyzer/zodiac 01 Feb 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
games-fps/doomlegacy 02 Feb 2007 Tristan Heaven[17]
net-p2p/gnome-btdownload 02 Feb 2007 Raúl Porcel[14]
games-kids/matritsa 03 Feb 2007 Tristan Heaven[17]
app-misc/nomad-tool 03 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[18]
dev-ada/adaopengl 03 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[18]
dev-ada/adabindx 03 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[18]
x11-misc/gtk2mp 04 Feb 2007 Andrej Kacian[19]
net-mail/base64 04 Feb 2007 Andrej Kacian[19]
net-misc/tulip-devel 04 Feb 2007 Rajiv Aaron Manglani[20]
media-radio/ax25-tools 04 Feb 2007 Charlie Shepherd[21]
14. armin76@gentoo.org
15. beandog@gentoo.org
16. jokey@gentoo.org
17. nyhm@gentoo.org
18. george@gentoo.org
19. ticho@gentoo.org
20. rajiv@gentoo.org
21. masterdriverz@gentoo.org
Additions:
----------
Package: Addition date: Contact:
dev-php5/xcache[22] 29 Jan 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
dev-perl/Cisco-IPPhone[23] 30 Jan 2007 Tony Vroon[24]
media-libs/libdjconsole[25] 30 Jan 2007 Alexis Ballier[26]
xfce-extra/thunar-volman[27] 31 Jan 2007 Peter Weller[28]
games-fps/ut2004-hamsterbash[29] 31 Jan 2007 Chris Gianelloni[30]
games-fps/ut2004-ultraduel[31] 31 Jan 2007 Chris Gianelloni[30]
dev-games/wfmath[32] 01 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[33]
dev-games/mercator[34] 01 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[33]
games-server/cyphesis[35] 01 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[33]
dev-python/pysnmp-mibs[36] 02 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
dev-python/pysnmp-apps[38] 02 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
app-emacs/org-mode[39] 02 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[40]
games-arcade/jardinains[41] 02 Feb 2007 Gustavo Felisberto[42]
dev-lang/interprolog[43] 02 Feb 2007 Keri Harris[44]
app-text/tesseract[45] 02 Feb 2007 Patrick McLean[46]
sys-apps/chname[47] 03 Feb 2007 Michael Marineau[48]
dev-python/pyinotify[49] 03 Feb 2007 Bryan Østergaard[50]
www-servers/mongrel_cluster[51] 03 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
net-analyzer/ifstatus[53] 03 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
dev-libs/libmcs[54] 03 Feb 2007 Tony Vroon[24]
net-analyzer/ipband[55] 03 Feb 2007 Martin Jackson[37]
dev-ruby/wirble[56] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/ruby-inline[57] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/radius[58] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/radiant[59] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-ruby/hpricot[60] 04 Feb 2007 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[52]
dev-python/sexy-python[61] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
media-sound/exaile[63] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
x11-apps/amlc[64] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
xfce-extra/xfce4-eyes[65] 04 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[62]
16. jokey@gentoo.org
22. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-php5;name=xcache
23. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Cisco-IPPhone
24. chainsaw@gentoo.org
25. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-libs;name=libdjconsole
26. aballier@gentoo.org
27. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=thunar-volman
28. welp@gentoo.org
29. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-fps;name=ut2004-hamsterbash
30. wolf31o2@gentoo.org
31. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-fps;name=ut2004-ultraduel
32. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-games;name=wfmath
33. tupone@gentoo.org
34. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-games;name=mercator
35. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-server;name=cyphesis
36. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pysnmp-mibs
37. mjolnir@gentoo.org
38. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pysnmp-apps
39. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-emacs;name=org-mode
40. opfer@gentoo.org
41. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-arcade;name=jardinains
42. humpback@gentoo.org
43. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-lang;name=interprolog
44. keri@gentoo.org
45. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-text;name=tesseract
46. chutzpah@gentoo.org
47. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-apps;name=chname
48. marineam@gentoo.org
49. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pyinotify
50. kloeri@gentoo.org
51. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-servers;name=mongrel_cluster
52. pclouds@gentoo.org
53. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=ifstatus
54. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-libs;name=libmcs
55. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=ipband
56. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=wirble
57. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-inline
58. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=radius
59. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=radiant
60. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=hpricot
61. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=sexy-python
62. drac@gentoo.org
63. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=exaile
64. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=x11-apps;name=amlc
65. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=xfce4-eyes
Last Rites:
-----------
Package: Removal date: Contact:
sys-cluster/gomd[66] 17 Feb 2007 Daniel Drake[67]
sys-cluster/openmosix-3dmon[68] 17 Feb 2007 Daniel Drake[67]
dev-embedded/gpsim-led[69] 01 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-embedded/gpsim-logic[71] 01 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
net-analyzer/prelude-nids[72] 01 Mar 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
net-analyzer/prelude-nagios[73] 02 Mar 2007 Markus Ullmann[16]
media-sound/choad[74] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/gradio[75] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/liteamp[76] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/pd-cyclone[77] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/mpio[78] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/psmix[79] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/sulu[80] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-video/ks3switch[81] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
sys-apps/s3switch[82] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
media-sound/yserver[83] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
app-admin/kcmgrunlevel[84] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gtk[85] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gconf[86] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gdkimlib[87] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-gdkpixbuf[88] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ruby/ruby-libart[89] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
www-client/ci[90] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
www-client/gorua[91] 03 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
app-portage/kentoo[92] 04 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
www-client/khttrack[93] 04 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
dev-ada/garlic[94] 04 Mar 2007 Diego Pettenò[70]
16. jokey@gentoo.org
66. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-cluster;name=gomd
67. dsd@gentoo.org
68. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-cluster;name=openmosix-3dmon
69. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-embedded;name=gpsim-led
70. flameeyes@gentoo.org
71. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-embedded;name=gpsim-logic
72. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=prelude-nids
73. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-analyzer;name=prelude-nagios
74. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=choad
75. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=gradio
76. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=liteamp
77. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=pd-cyclone
78. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=mpio
79. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=psmix
80. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=sulu
81. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-video;name=ks3switch
82. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-apps;name=s3switch
83. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=yserver
84. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-admin;name=kcmgrunlevel
85. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gtk
86. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gconf
87. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gdkimlib
88. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-gdkpixbuf
89. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-libart
90. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-client;name=ci
91. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-client;name=gorua
92. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-portage;name=kentoo
93. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-client;name=khttrack
94. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ada;name=garlic
===========
8. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[95]) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development
team. Between 28 January 2007 and 04 February 2007, activity on the site has
resulted in:
95. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 702 new bugs during this period
* 537 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 33 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
* 238 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this
period
* 118 bugs marked as duplicates during this period
Of the 10485 currently open bugs: 18 are labeled 'blocker', 112 are labeled
'critical', and 441 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Project[96], with 51 closed bugs[97]
* Gentoo Games[98], with 26 closed bugs[99]
* Java team[100], with 23 closed bugs[101]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[102], with 22 closed bugs[103]
* Gentoo KDE team[2], with 19 closed bugs[104]
* Netmon Herd[105], with 18 closed bugs[106]
* Portage team[107], with 14 closed bugs[108]
* Gentoo Sound Team[109], with 12 closed bugs[110]
2. kde@gentoo.org
96. amd64@gentoo.org
97. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
98. games@gentoo.org
99. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
100. java@gentoo.org
101. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
102. gnome@gentoo.org
103. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
104. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
105. netmon@gentoo.org
106. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@gentoo.org
107. dev-portage@gentoo.org
108. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
109. sound@gentoo.org
110. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Default Assignee for New Packages[111], with 29 new bugs[112]
* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[113], with 13 new bugs[114]
* Gentoo KDE team[2], with 10 new bugs[115]
* media-video herd[116], with 9 new bugs[117]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[118], with 8 new bugs[119]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[120], with 7 new bugs[121]
* Gentoo Games[98], with 7 new bugs[122]
* AMD64 Project[96], with 7 new bugs[123]
2. kde@gentoo.org
96. amd64@gentoo.org
98. games@gentoo.org
111. maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
112. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@gentoo.org
113. toolchain@gentoo.org
114. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=toolchain@gentoo.org
115. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
116. media-video@gentoo.org
117. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
118. maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
119. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@gentoo.org
120. x11@gentoo.org
121. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
122. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
123. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-01-28&chfieldto=2007-02-04&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
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