Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 20 June 2005
Ulrich Plate <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:53:31 +0200
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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 20 June 2005. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 1. Gentoo News =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Gentoo Foundation store opens ----------------------------- =20 Taking over from Daniel Robbins -- whose sole remaining activity at the=20 Gentoo project had been the Gentoo merchandising shop operations -- the=20 new Gentoo store under new management by the Gentoo Foundation is now up=20 and running. Set up at Cafepress, the store's catalog of 2005.1 CDs,=20 branded clothing and "schwag" including coffee mugs and other=20 merchandising items is now ready for online ordering, with prices in USD=20 and delivery worldwide. 5 USD of each item sold goes as a direct=20 contribution to the Gentoo project, to be made available to development b= y=20 the Foundation. The store's address hasn't changed, it's at=20 http://store.gentoo.org[1].=20 1. http://store.gentoo.org =20 Gentoo at the German LinuxTag 2005 in Karlsruhe ----------------------------------------------- =20 "Linux everywhere" is the motto of this year's LinuxTag, the largest=20 European Linux fair, which again takes place in Karlsruhe this week, 22 t= o=20 25 June. "Gentoo on everything slightly faster than a washing machine"=20 could very well be the slogan of the Gentoo booth at the event.=20 Representing Gentoo Linux for the third year in a row, this year seesa=20 nice collection of Gentoo-supported platforms on display, including MIPS=20 machines (an SGI O2), a Sun Blade 100 (SPARC) and several PowerPC hosts=20 (two PegasosPPC ODWs and several iBook's), complemented by the usual=20 assorted x86 hardware.=20 =20 You will have plenty of opportunity to meet many of the German Gentoo=20 developers and discuss recent activites and upcoming changes with them. A= =20 handful of developers from other countries also announced their=20 attendance, of which Robin H. Johnson[2] flying in from Canada will=20 undoubtedly be the one earning the most bonus-miles.=20 2. [email protected] =20 Gentoo booths organized by the German NFP "Friends of Gentoo e.V."[3]=20 traditionally include a remastered XLiveCD distributed under the nickname= =20 "Fizzlewizzle". Thanks to Joseph Jezak's[4] brand-new version of=20 Xorgautoconfig[5] this event's Fizzlewizzle Edition is also available for= =20 PowerPCs. The XLiveCD is fully localized into German, ships with the=20 current KDE release 3.4.1 and features top-notch translated installation=20 documents. Gentoo merchandise and lots of free give-a-ways are available=20 at the booth, too, and visitors can also become a member of "Friends of=20 Gentoo" (official German title of the NFP: F=C3=B6rderverein Gentoo e.V.)= on=20 the spot, for an annual membership fee of 20 EUR (10 for students).=20 3. http://www.gentoo-ev.org 4. [email protected] 5. http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/Xorgautoconfig.html =20 Gentoo Forum admin and moderators to become official staff members ------------------------------------------------------------------ =20 After years in the twilight zone, the Gentoo Forums are becoming an=20 official Gentoo project. Christian Hartmann[6] and Wernfried Haas[7]=20 submitted a GLEP[8] that has already been discussed with Gentoo's=20 developer relations department, as it directly impacts in their area, and= =20 has now been taken to the [email protected] mailing list for open=20 discussion.=20 6. [email protected] 7. [email protected] 8. http://download.iansview.com/gentoo/docs/glep-38/glep-0038.txt =20 This means that all administrators and the so-called global moderators=20 will now be official Gentoo staff members. This will give the Forum team=20 better access to developers and resources helping them ensure the quality= =20 of the award winning[9] Gentoo Forums.=20 9. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050314-newsletter.xml#doc_chap4 =20 In preparation for this change the Forum team has written a new=20 document[10] entitled "Gentoo Forums Moderator Policies and Guidelines".=20 10. http://curtis119.no-ip.org/forum-guide.xml =20 Gentoo Forums receive hardware donation --------------------------------------- =20 Forum administrator Tom Knight's[11] employers, Dialogue=20 Communications[12], have generously donated two 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax=20 Plus 9 hard drives and an AMCC 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA RAID controller. This= =20 hardware will mainly be used for development and testing of new forums=20 features, including the long awaited UTF8 conversion which needs lots of=20 I/O for testing. Thanks a lot!=20 11. [email protected] 12. http://www.dialogue.net =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 2. Heard in the community =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Web forums ---------- =20 64 vs 32 bit: is less really more? =20 Triggered by Jem Matzan's article on Linux.com[13], this thread discusses= =20 the virtues of going 64-bit instead of staying with a 32-bit-architecture= .=20 As the article seems to find too little in terms of performance=20 enhancement by the move at this time, the Forum regulars are a little=20 disappointed about tomorrow's platform not being properly hailed as=20 today's alternative, as they think it should be. 13. news/gwn/20050620-newsletter.xml#doc_chap4_sect4 =20 * Article: 64-bit performance in Gentoo Linux[14]=20 14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-349691.html =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 3. Gentoo International =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 UK: London Gentoo user and developer meeting -------------------------------------------- =20 Last Friday, a few Gentoo developers and users met up, albeit at very=20 short notice, for a few drinks in central London. Gentoo developers Danie= l=20 Drake[15], Michal Januszewski[16] (visiting from Poland) and Benjamin=20 Smee[17] (strerror) got together with event organizer George Prowse[18]=20 (more widely known as cokehabit) and Gentoo users Andy and Edwin for the=20 afternoon. They are planning to organize a similar meeting later this=20 summer, and this time there'll be some advance notice, promised!=20 15. [email protected] 16. [email protected] 17. [email protected] 18. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=3Dviewprofile&u=3D53428 =20 Figure 3.1: Gentooists of London http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050620_london.jpg =20 Note: Left to right: Daniel Drake, Andy, George Prowse, Benjamin Smee,=20 Michal Januszewski =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 4. Gentoo in the press =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Slashdot (14 June 2005) ----------------------- =20 A merry flamefest was kindled upon news that Gentoo founder Daniel Robbin= s=20 had found employment with Microsoft. Among the readers commenting the=20 short article[19], Hans Reiser could be seen putting drobbins' credit car= d=20 debt in perspective with his own financial distress stemming from a messy= =20 divorce, other people volunteered to mount rescue missions, with about=20 half the comments venturing into various sinister sci-fi analogies from=20 Star Wars to Star Trek, apparently unable to decide whether it's been=20 Darth Gates or Gates of Borg who lured Gentoo's ex-chief-architect into=20 joining the forces of evil.=20 19. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/06/13/2137239.shtml =20 The Age, Sydney Morning Herald (14 June 2005) --------------------------------------------- =20 Australian broad-sheet daily newspaper The Age picked up the story of=20 Daniel Robbins' new employment at Microsoft[20] from the Gentoo website.=20 Author Sam Varghese puts the Gentoo founder next to Gnome's Nat Friedman=20 as "about the only other prominent open-source figure" who has ever worke= d=20 for Microsoft, with Ximian founder Miguel de Icaza having been interviewe= d=20 once, but turned down. The same article appeared in the Sydney Morning=20 Herald[21], a sister publication of The Age. 20. http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/06/14/1118645786407.html 21.=20 http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Gentoo-Linux-founder-joins-Microsoft/= 20 05/06/14/1118645786407.html =20 The Inquirer (14 June 2005) --------------------------- =20 A significantly more salacious way of wording the very same news item=20 could be found at the Inquirer[22], a rather eccentric UK online=20 publication who depicts Daniel Robbins turning into someone who "squeaks=20 wildly in the burrow of the Vole" where he's "joined the forces of=20 darkness" in order "to help Microsoft try to understand how Open Sauce=20 works, a fairly major task."=20 22. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3D23923 =20 Linux.com (15 June 2005) ------------------------ =20 Yet another Gentoo-related article by Linux.com author Jem Matzen, this=20 time about "64-bit performance in Gentoo Linux"[23] -- or rather the lack= =20 of any really outstanding performance measured in his benchmark tests. An= =20 earlier test with FreeBSD in a 64-bit environment had already yielded=20 similar results: "64-bit does make a difference, but that performance=20 advantage may not be evident in all situations."=20 23. http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/05/06/09/1413209.shtml?tid=3D= 121 =20 ZDNet UK (16 June 2005) ----------------------- =20 Allowing for a few days of checking the background, ZDNet's Ingrid Marson= =20 wrote a more complete assessment[24] of Daniel's new employment and the=20 alleged ripples in the project's surface, which as she finds weren't as=20 agitated as some expected.=20 24. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39203933,00.ht= m =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D 5. Moves, adds, and changes =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D =20 Moves ----- =20 The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:=20 =20 * None this week=20 =20 Adds ---- =20 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:=20 =20 * Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois Brunette (formula7) - Security=20 * Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) - Video Disc Recorder (VDR) ebuilds=20 * Julien Allanos (dju`) - web apps=20 * Paul Varner (FuzzyRay) - tools-portage=20 * Senno During (st3vie) - Dutch GWN translation lead=20 * Stefan Briesenick (sbriesen) - net-dialup =20 Changes ------- =20 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux=20 project: =20 * None this week=20 =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 6. Gentoo security =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability --------------------------------------------- =20 MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow= =20 arbitrary scripting code execution.=20 =20 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[25]=20 25. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-12.xml =20 webapp-config: Insecure temporary file handling ----------------------------------------------- =20 The webapp-config utility insecurely creates temporary files in a world=20 writable directory, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary=20 commands.=20 =20 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[26]=20 26. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml =20 Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation --------------------------------------------------- =20 Sun's and Blackdown's JDK or JRE may allow untrusted applets to elevate=20 their privileges.=20 =20 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[27]=20 27. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-14.xml =20 PeerCast: Format string vulnerability ------------------------------------- =20 PeerCast suffers from a format string vulnerability that could allow=20 arbitrary code execution.=20 =20 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[28]=20 28. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-15.xml =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 7. Bugzilla =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Summary ------- =20 * Statistics=20 * Closed bug ranking=20 * New bug rankings=20 =20 Statistics ---------- =20 The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[29]) to record and=20 track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the=20 development team. Between 12 June 2005 and 19 June 2005, activity on the=20 site has resulted in:=20 29. http://bugs.gentoo.org =20 * 664 new bugs during this period=20 * 348 bugs closed or resolved during this period=20 * 21 previously closed bugs were reopened this period=20 =20 Of the 8461 currently open bugs: 97 are labeled 'blocker', 214 are labele= d=20 'critical', and 605 are labeled 'major'.=20 =20 Closed bug rankings ------------------- =20 The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period= =20 are:=20 =20 * Jonathan Smith[30], with 40 closed bugs[31] =20 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[32], with 21 closed bugs[33] =20 * Gentoo Security[34], with 16 closed bugs[35] =20 * Gentoo KDE team[36], with 13 closed bugs[37] =20 * Net-Mail Packages[38], with 10 closed bugs[39] =20 * Gentoo Games[40], with 10 closed bugs[41] =20 * Netmon Herd[42], with 8 closed bugs[43] =20 * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[44], with 8 closed bugs[45] =20 30. [email protected] 31.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 32. [email protected] 33.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 34. [email protected] 35.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 36. [email protected] 37.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 38. [email protected] 39.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 40. [email protected] 41.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 42. [email protected] 43.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] 44. [email protected] 45.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO= SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chfieldto=3D2005-06-19&= resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected] =20 New bug rankings ---------------- =20 The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during=20 this period are:=20 =20 * Default Assignee for New Packages[46], with 218 new bugs[47] =20 * Gentoo Sound Team[48], with 18 new bugs[49] =20 * PHP Bugs[50], with 12 new bugs[51] =20 * media-video herd[52], with 11 new bugs[53] =20 * Python Gentoo Team[54], with 10 new bugs[55] =20 * AMD64 Porting Team[56], with 8 new bugs[57] =20 * Roy Marples[58], with 7 new bugs[59] =20 * Mozilla Gentoo Team[60], with 7 new bugs[61] =20 46. [email protected] 47.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 48. [email protected] 49.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 50. [email protected] 51.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 52. [email protected] 53.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 54. [email protected] 55.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 56. [email protected] 57.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 58. [email protected] 59.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] 60. [email protected] 61.=20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED= &bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2005-06-12&chf= ieldto=3D2005-06-19&[email protected] =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 8. GWN feedback =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Please send us your feedback[62] and help make the GWN better.=20 62. [email protected] =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 9. 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