Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 9 October 2006

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1. Gentoo news
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X.Org 7.1 to enter stable for amd64 and x86
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The Gentoo X11 team[1] plans to stabilize X.Org 7.1 for x86 and amd64 on=20
or after Thursday, 12 October. The lack of binary driver support=20
previously held up this release, but Nvidia and ATI released compatible=20
versions that are now marked stable on both architectures.=20

 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11
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This release features the addition of accelerated indirect GLX (AIGLX),=20
which allows for eye candy such as the Compiz window/compositing manager,=
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as well as running 3D accelerated display walls with Xdmx. X.Org 7.1 also=
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integrates the kdrive (TinyX) servers for embedded systems into the=20
xorg-server package with the kdrive USE flag. The kdrive integration=20
additionally provides Xephyr, an enhanced Xnest-like client. Numerous=20
video drivers also received significant updates.=20
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Safe CFLAGS
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Being able to tune CFLAGS is part of the user control and extreme=20
configurability that are hallmarks of the Gentoo experience[2]. Being in=20
control brings both benefits and problems. CFLAGS tuning is not an=20
exception.=20

 2. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
  Using anything beyond -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march/-mcpu/-mtune in=20
CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS (and -mieee, -mabi etc. on selected archs that tell yo=
u=20
to do this), and using anything at all in LDFLAGS or ASFLAGS, is usually=20
not worth the trouble for most users. There's usually very little benefit=
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if any, high risks, and large amounts of time spent on frustrating tuning=
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that could be enjoyed doing far more interesting things. =20
The recent upgrade to GCC 4.1 for stable x86 and amd64 users changed the=20
CFLAGS landscape. Users that spent some time tuning their CFLAGS with GCC=
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3.4 might find that an upgrade to GCC 4.1 leaves them with an unstable=20
system.=20
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Examples of this are:=20
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 * nss_ldap stopped working with -ffast-math (-ffast-math is often misuse=
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and must be considered a dangerous flag)=20
 * -fvisibility-inlines-hidden still breaks some code=20
 * -ftree-loop-linear now breaks in GCC 4.1 (at least with mesa)=20
 * -ftree-vectorize is known to be broken in GCC 4.1 (at least for x86 an=
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ppc, there are fewer problems reported by amd64 users, but no guarantees)=
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 * -fforce-addr and -fweb break regularly on x86 with video libraries or=20
graphic processing apps which use hand-optimized assembly (-fweb may be=20
safe on amd64 but like above no guarantees)=20
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There are known-to-be-broken flags for all GCC versions that you want to=20
check for too:=20
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 * -fvisibility=3Dhidden=20
 * -frename-registers (may be safe on amd64, at your own risks)=20
 * -ftracer=20
 * -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=3D64=20
 * -msse, -mmmx, and -m3dnow (no need for them on amd64, they are wrapped=
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up by -march=3Dk8/nocona/... and safely used there)=20
 * -W=20
 * -mfpmath=3Dsse,387=20
 * -malign-double=20
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Users with unsupported CFLAGS might want to return to safe CFLAGS (see=20
warning above) if recent updates caused them stability problems. On the=20
other hand, more adventurous users might want to experiment with CFLAGS=20
that didn't work properly with GCC 3.4.6... As always, the user is in=20
control (and the gun pointed to their feet is in his/her hand).=20
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Final notes:=20
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 * The GCC man page contains warnings for some unsafe optimization=20
options. You should read it carefully when you experiment with CFLAGS or=20
upgrade GCC on a CFLAGS-customized Gentoo.=20
 * Some options that are unsafe in the system-wide CFLAGS might be added=20
automatically in some ebuilds if the developer deems them safe (by=20
redefining CFLAGS or using append-flags from the flag-o-matic eclass). Fo=
r=20
example -ffast-math is added by the xmame/xmess ebuilds on most=20
architectures even though you should not put it in your CFLAGS.=20
 * You might get an idea of the stability issues of a specific=20
optimization option by running: find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild' | xarg=
s=20
grep -- '-your-risky-optimization-option'. It takes quite some time, but=20
might be enlightening: look for the 'filter-flags'.=20
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2. Developer of the week
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." =
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Daniel Ostrow, dostrow
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Figure 2.1: Daniel Ostrow
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Developer Daniel Ostrow, also known as dostrow, was born and raised in=20
Michigan. Though he claims to be a New Yorker, at least in spirit --=20
spending 16 years there could do that -- he currently resides just outsid=
e=20
San Francisco, CA. Daniel lives alone, though he plans to get a cat one=20
he's settled. When living with his family back in NY, Daniel lived with=20
three cats, some fish, a turtle, and a nine foot snake.=20
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Dostrow learned pretty early on that college wasn't for him, though he di=
d=20
work for a while towards a degree in Interdisciplinary Marine Psych/Bio,=20
specializing in marine mammals, quite the far cry from the computer geek=20
he admits to having always been. Daniel says that in due time, he will=20
eventually get around to a degree in something or other.=20
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Daniel works for a Human Resources web service company, Workstream, which=
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provides both on premise and hosted solutions for the entire HR life=20
cycle, from recruitment to termination. While he was hired because of his=
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affiliation with Gentoo, he is, alas, not paid to work on Gentoo. His job=
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title is that of Senior Systems Engineer. Daniel sums up his job as being=
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loaned to other departments to make the impossible, possible. While this=20
sounds a bit unsettling, he enjoys always being kept on his toes and the=20
fact that he is never working on one thing long enough to get bored with=20
it. Workstream is a CentOS/Solaris/Windows shop, but Daniel managed to=20
squeeze in Gentoo on a server that needed a custom patched kernel and his=
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own local workstation.=20
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Being an active Gentoo developer is a skill that Daniel describes as bein=
g=20
invaluable in the work place. He is able to apply the same skills require=
d=20
to be a good developer (being an effective administrator, a logical=20
thinker, and a tinkerer at heart) easily to most any IT job.=20
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When not working, dostrow indulges in his animation obsession, basically=20
vegging out in front of the TV. He partakes in the pretty standard=20
activities, going to the San Francisco clubs and bars or taking in a=20
movie. He loves Star Wars (lots and lots) and dance music. His favorite D=
J=20
is currently Armin Van Buuren, though Ti=C3=ABsto, Paul Van Dyk, and Ferr=
y=20
Corsten are all at the top of his list. He likes techno so much that=20
Daniel makes it to the Ultra Music Festival in Florida every year. Oh=20
yeah, did we mention that Daniel loves Star Wars? If that wasn't enough,=20
he also admits to a hobby of archery. The neatest place that dostrow has=20
traveled to? Definitely his month-long trip to eastern Asia where he had=20
the opportunity to hit up Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Taiwan.=20
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Dostrow started his *nix experience using NetBSD and went through a phase=
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of trying multiple Linux distributions. He found his way to Gentoo in the=
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1.4_rc1 days, but found that a number of frustrating 'linuxisms'=20
confounded him, so he moved on to other distributions. He found his way=20
back to Gentoo after having familiarized himself with Linux. He attribute=
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his early successes to the assistance of the Gentoo community (and gives=20
shouts to Pylon and pvdabeel for their early help in getting his first PP=
C=20
up and running). Dostrow continued to hang out in #gentoo-ppc, submitting=
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patches and writing new ebuilds for out of date packages. He was quickly=20
recruited by pvdabeel in May of 2004. His primary roles are with PPC64 an=
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XFCE. He absolutely loves XFCE, having recently acquired the hardware to=20
maintain it on every supported architecture.=20
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Daniel boasts quite the home computer collection, consisting of an x86=20
Dell laptop and desktop, two AMD64 systems and an AMD64 Acer Ferrari, an=20
Alpha, an HPPA, an ARM, two PPC's, two PPC64's, a few Sparcs, a MIPS box,=
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and an IA64. Not too surprising, the first application dostrow launches i=
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XFCE, followed by urxvt, gaim, xchat, and evolution.=20
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3. Heard in the community
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forums.gentoo.org
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Goodbye my Gentoo servers, I hardly knew you
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Forums user kashani writes about his experiences with using Gentoo Linux=20
as a replacement for CentOS at http://jumpcut.com/ prior to being bought=20
by Yahoo! two weeks ago. The post starts with talking about how the=20
conversion was begun with the support servers, then the development=20
servers, followed soon by staging and production.=20
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 * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-504541.html=20
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gentoo-user
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OT: Sansa e260 MicroSD
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Devon Miller owns a SanDisk Sans E260, a flash-based MP3 player with a=20
slot for additional SD card storage. Devon was able to mount the flash=20
drive but not the SD card. Steve McGrath (who'd had a similar problem wit=
h=20
a 5-in-1 card reader) advised Devon to recompile his kernel with the=20
option "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" selected under Device=20
Drivers->SCSI device support. Devon reported problem solved.=20
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 * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/171570=20
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Allow a user to restart net.wlan0
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In order to deal with intermittent NIC failures on his son's machine, Mar=
k=20
Knecht needed to allow a non-root user to run the command=20
/etc/init.d/wlan0 restart. Mark Shields and Devon Miller advised him to=20
use visudo to add "username ALL=3D(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0" =
to=20
the /etc/sudoers file. Ian Buchanan's suggested alternative was "username=
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ALL=3D(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart" which would allow on=
ly=20
the restarting of the service.=20
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Nick Rout and Alexander Skwar pointed out that the Atheros card might wor=
k=20
better with the madwifi-ng driver in lieu of the ndiswrapper-ed Windows=20
driver which Knecht had been using.=20
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 * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/171551=20
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4. Gentoo in the press
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NewsForge (6 Oct 2006)
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Benetech CTO, Dr. Patrick Ball talks about open source software and Gento=
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in particular.=20
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Ball's personal desktop is a Gentoo Linux box. "I've used Gentoo for=20
years, because it was a lot of fun and it taught me a lot about how to=20
administer a machine," he says, noting its unique=20
choose-and-compile-everything philosophy. But he also says that you're no=
t=20
caught out on a limb when you use it -- the people who use and support an=
d=20
develop it are there to help you.=20
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"The community is really strong and they're responsive at different=20
levels," he says. "Other [free software communities] are responsive maybe=
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at the newbie level or way out at the expert level, whereas Gentoo is=20
there across all levels -- they don't flame you with Eric Raymond's URL=20
and tell you to get lost."=20
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While Benetech had previously chosen Red Hat and Gentoo for its desktops,=
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today they're all running Ubuntu. Ball cited Ubuntu's ease of setup and=20
installation as the reason for the switch. "If you have to roll out 10 or=
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15 machines, Gentoo's [inconvenient]. Most of our machines are Kubuntu,=20
but there are a couple of GNOME people in our organization."=20
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http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/09/29/1827208.shtml?tid=3D39&ti=
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Linux Magazin (Nov 2006)
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Germany's Linux Magazin has published an article about=20
http://overlays.gentoo.org and layman in the November edition of their=20
print magazine. The article, entitled "Community-basiertes=20
Qualit=C3=A4tsmanagement" (Community-based Quality Management), talks abo=
ut how=20
Gentoo demonstrates how a strong interaction with the community breaks=20
with traditional quality assurance procedures and still produces a stable=
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result.=20
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German-speaking members of the community should pick up the November=20
edition of the magazine for the article, as it is not available online.=20
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 * http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2006/11=20
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http://gunnarwrobel.de/blog/english/technical/gentoo/german_linux_magazin=
e_
publishes_article_on_overlays.gentoo.org_and_layman.html=20
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5. Gentoo developer moves
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Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:=20
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 * Tim Yamin (plasmaroo)=20
 * Gregorio Guidi (greg_g)=20
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Adds
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:=20
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 * Alon Bar-Lev (alonbl) crypto team=20
 * Jeffrey Gardner (je_fro) sci-* team=20
 * Timothy Redaelli (drizzt) Gentoo/FreeBSD=20
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Changes
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project=
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 * none this week=20
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6. Gentoo security
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Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
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The Mozilla Foundation has reported multiple security vulnerabilities=20
related to Mozilla Thunderbird.=20
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For more information, please see the  GLSA Announcement[3]=20

 3. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml
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Adobe Flash Player: Arbitrary code execution
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Multiple input validation errors have been identified that allow arbitrar=
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code execution on a user's system via the handling of malicious Flash=20
files.=20
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For more information, please see the  GLSA Announcement[4]=20

 4. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-02.xml
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ncompress: Buffer Underflow
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A buffer underflow vulnerability has been reported in ncompress allowing=20
for the execution of arbitrary code.=20
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For more information, please see the  GLSA Announcement[5]=20

 5. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200610-03.xml
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7. Bugzilla
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Summary
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 * Statistics=20
 * Closed bug ranking=20
 * New bug rankings=20
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Statistics
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[6]) to record and=20
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the=20
development team. Between 01 October 2006 and 08 October 2006, activity o=
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the site has resulted in:=20

 6. http://bugs.gentoo.org
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 * 748 new bugs during this period=20
 * 584 bugs closed or resolved during this period=20
 * 34 previously closed bugs were reopened this period=20
 * 213 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this=20
period=20
 * 166 bugs marked as duplicates during this period=20
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Of the 11080 currently open bugs: 33 are labeled 'blocker', 121 are=20
labeled 'critical', and 505 are labeled 'major'.=20
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Closed bug rankings
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period=
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are:=20
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 * Gentoo Games[7], with 43 closed bugs[8] =20
 * Gentoo Sound Team[9], with 42 closed bugs[10] =20
 * AMD64 Project[11], with 28 closed bugs[12] =20
 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[13], with 24 closed bugs[14] =20
 * Portage team[15], with 21 closed bugs[16] =20
 * Xavier Neys[17], with 19 closed bugs[18] =20
 * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[19], with 14 closed bugs[20] =20
 * Gentoo Ruby Team[21], with 11 closed bugs[22] =20
 7. [email protected]
 8.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 9. [email protected]
 10.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 11. [email protected]
 12.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 13. [email protected]
 14.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 15. [email protected]
 16.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 17. [email protected]
 18.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 19. [email protected]
 20.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]
 21. [email protected]
 22.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DRESOLVED&bug_status=3DCLO=
SED&chfield=3Dbug_status&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chfieldto=3D2006-10-08&=
resolution=3DFIXED&[email protected]

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New bug rankings
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during=20
this period are:=20
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 * Default Assignee for New Packages[23], with 29 new bugs[24] =20
 * Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy[25], with 20 new bugs[26] =20
 * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[27], with 13 new bugs[28] =20
 * Mozilla Gentoo Team[29], with 10 new bugs[30] =20
 * Gentoo Sound Team[31], with 9 new bugs[32] =20
 * Gentoo Games[33], with 8 new bugs[34] =20
 * AMD64 Project[35], with 8 new bugs[36] =20
 * Java team[37], with 7 new bugs[38] =20
 23. [email protected]
 24.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 25. [email protected]
 26.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 27. [email protected]
 28.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 29. [email protected]
 30.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 31. [email protected]
 32.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 33. [email protected]
 34.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 35. [email protected]
 36.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]
 37. [email protected]
 38.=20
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=3DNEW&bug_status=3DASSIGNED=
&bug_status=3DREOPENED&chfield=3Dassigned_to&chfieldfrom=3D2006-10-01&chf=
ieldto=3D2006-10-08&[email protected]

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8. Upcoming package removals
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Starting this week, the GWN is debuting a section listing the packages=20
that have been announced for removal from the tree. This list is compiled=
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manually, at present, and may not be entirely inclusive. The goal of this=
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section is to help inform the community on packages that will be removed=20
from the tree, allowing them to migrate to new packages, or even voluntee=
r=20
to help with the package and keep it alive. The GWN staff hopes to make=20
this a recurring section in the GWN and wishes to make this an automated=20
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