Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 24 July 2006
Lars Weiler <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:43:36 +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 24 July 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============== 1. Gentoo news ============== Sun T2000 donation ------------------ On June 20th, Gentoo was approached by David Killian from Sun's Niagara Product Team, offering a Niagara box for development, porting, and testing. The T2000 is equipped with the new UltraSPARC T1 processor, a massive, yet very power efficient, 8-core multithreading processor. The machine is being hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Labs and it currently being used to build the upcoming 2006.1 release. It will then be used for further development by SPARC-team members, and other Gentoo developers whom do not have access to SPARC equipment. For the curious, there is a boot log[1] provided by Gustavo Zacarias[2] in his developer web space. 1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/bender-bootlog.txt 2. [email protected] Ethereal moves to wireshark --------------------------- As many of you may already know, Ethereal[3] has moved to Wireshark[4]. Due to security vulnerabilities, Bug #140856[5], and the assumption that Ethereal is not being developed further[6], Gentoo has decided to drop the Ethereal package in favor of Wireshark. To make this transition as seamless as possible, Wireshark should appear when you attempt to update Ethereal. 3. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb396098.htm 4. http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2 5. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140856 6. http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-cvs/200605 To keep your filters and other configurations that you had as a user you are required to manually move your Ethereal configuration to Wireshark as follows: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 1.1: | | Ethereal to Wireshark configuration change | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | |cd $HOME | |mv .ethereal .wireshark | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ User representatives election open ---------------------------------- The Gentoo User Relations[7] project is happy to announce that the elections for the position of User Representative[8] are now open. 7. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/index.xml 8. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/userrep.xml The candidates have each written some information[9] about themselves and what they would like to achieve. 9. http://dev.gentoo.org/~mark_alec/userrel/elections.html You can only vote once, so carefully consider who you would most like to represent you. To vote, go to the User Representative Elections[10] and select your user representative. 10. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-482799.html ========================= 2. Heard in the community ========================= forums ------ Deletion of Inactive user accounts Gentoo developer Tom Knight[11] has made an announcement on the Gentoo Forums, warning that a cron job will be run, starting on the 28th of July and running monthly, to delete inactive user accounts. The current estimate is that the cron job on its first run will delete around 23,000 accounts. More details about the criteria for deletion are available in the announcement. 11. [email protected] * [forums-announce] Upcoming deletion of inactive accounts[12] 12. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-482616.html planet.gentoo.org ----------------- gentoo-stats test request One of the projects implemented in this year's Google Summer of Code is a new Gentoo stats implementation allowing architecture teams to know how much testing a package gets and what type of CFLAGS and USE flags our users utilize. Though most modules aren't ready yet Marius Mauch[13] put together a tarball to allow users starting test the client-modules that are already supposed to work. 13. [email protected] * gentoo-stats test request[14] 14. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/genone/2006/07/22/gentoo_stats_test_request_1 Nostalgic moments Starting with a users asking for old Portage sources Simon Stelling[15] started a trip in Gentoo's history. Besides old Portage 1.5 sources he put together a snapshot of the Portage tree from March 24 2001, just the day after Daniel Robbins added Portage 1.5 to tree. The tarball is "just" 11MB in size (compared to current snapshots which take 30MB) and features 1134 Ebuilds and 648 packages in 51 categories. 15. [email protected] * Nostalgic moments[16] 16. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/blubb/2006/07/18/nostalgic_moments ====================== 3. Gentoo in the press ====================== LXer.com (20 July 2006) ----------------------- Author Hans Kwint has written the second in his series of articles on Gentoo on the desktop, entitled A Gentoo diary part 1[17]. In this article, he writes about switching from lilo to grub, from xmms to audacious, and his setup of an old machine as a server. 17. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/65393 ========================= 4. Gentoo developer moves ========================= Moves ----- The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: * Otavio R. Piske (AngusYoung) Adds ---- The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: * Joshua Ross (joslway) PPC64/Release Engineering Changes ------- The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project: * none this week ================== 5. Gentoo security ================== libpng: Buffer overflow ----------------------- A buffer overflow has been found in the libpng library that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18] 18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-06.xml xine-lib: Buffer overflow ------------------------- A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19] 19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-07.xml GIMP: Buffer overflow --------------------- GIMP is prone to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code when loading specially crafted XCF files. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20] 20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-08.xml =========== 6. Bugzilla =========== Summary ------- * Statistics * Closed bug ranking * New bug rankings Statistics ---------- The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[21]) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 16 July 2006 and 23 July 2006, activity on the site has resulted in: 21. http://bugs.gentoo.org * 869 new bugs during this period * 375 bugs closed or resolved during this period * 27 previously closed bugs were reopened this period Of the 10567 currently open bugs: 52 are labeled 'blocker', 133 are labeled 'critical', and 526 are labeled 'major'. Closed bug rankings ------------------- The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are: * Xavier Neys[22], with 25 closed bugs[23] * Gentoo Games[24], with 20 closed bugs[25] * Portage team[26], with 18 closed bugs[27] * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[28], with 15 closed bugs[29] * AMD64 Project[30], with 12 closed bugs[31] * Gentoo X-windows packagers[32], with 10 closed bugs[33] * Java team[34], with 10 closed bugs[35] * Python Gentoo Team[36], with 9 closed bugs[37] 22. [email protected] 23. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 24. [email protected] 25. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 26. [email protected] 27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 28. [email protected] 29. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 30. [email protected] 31. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 32. [email protected] 33. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 34. [email protected] 35. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] 36. [email protected] 37. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&resolution=FIXED&[email protected] New bug rankings ---------------- The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are: * Default Assignee for New Packages[38], with 33 new bugs[39] * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[40], with 11 new bugs[41] * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[42], with 11 new bugs[43] * Mozilla Gentoo Team[44], with 9 new bugs[45] * media-video herd[46], with 9 new bugs[47] * AMD64 Project[48], with 9 new bugs[49] * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[50], with 8 new bugs[51] * Gentoo Science Related Packages[52], with 7 new bugs[53] 38. [email protected] 39. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&[email protected] 40. [email protected] 41. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&[email protected] 42. [email protected] 43. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&[email protected] 44. [email protected] 45. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&[email protected] 46. [email protected] 47. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&[email protected] 48. [email protected] 49. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-07-16&chfieldto=2006-07-23&[email protected] 50. 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