Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 45
Yuji Carlos Kosugi <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:58:04 -0500
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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 November 10th, 2003.
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1. Gentoo News
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Summary
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* Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary 3 Novemeber 2003
Gentoo Managers' Meeting Summary - 3 November 2003
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As part of the new management structure adopted on June 24th[1] of this
year, project managers have held biweekly IRC meetings in order to improve
communication within the project. As of 3 November 2003, raw meeting logs,
as well as summaries of them, are now available to the public.
1.
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030630-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1_sect2
In the meeting on November 3, two issues were discussed: project status
updates and portage-ng. The first concerned the fact that, while project
leaders were doing a good job of disseminating status reports amongst each
other, most developers and users were not seeing these and thus did not
know what was going on, and that this should be addressed. The second,
portage-ng, outlined by Daniel Robbins[2] at the meeting, is a strategy
behind a replacement to portage that would be modular, and possibly have
its core written in a language that would be "suitable for creating an
expert system." To read a more detailed summary of the meeting or to
peruse the logs, look at the Meeting Logs and Summaries[3] section of the
Gentoo Manager Meetings page.
2. [email protected]
3.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/manager-meetings/index.xml#doc_chap5
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2. Featured Developer of the Week
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Sven Vermeulen
Figure 2.1: Sven Vermeulen
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20031110_swift.jpg
This week's featured developer is Sven Vermeulen[4] (swift), the project
lead for the Gentoo Documentation Project[5]. His duties include the care
and feeding of Gentoo's documentation developers, updating and creating
documentation and shepherding various documentation subprojects, like the
GDP Handbook[6], a guide for gentoo users, which he is particularly
pleased with the progress on. The current state (comprising the install
documentation) is available as the Gentoo Handbook[7].
4. [email protected]
5. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/index.xml
6. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/handbook.xml
7. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml
Sven lives in Bruges, Belgium, not far from the coast. He is a Software
Engineering student at the University of Ghent. He also does occasional
consulting jobs, manages a research group, and administers a local
computer club. He has been a steady Linux user since 1997, when he started
with Red Hat 4.2. He first became aware of Gentoo in early 2002. After
some investigation he decided that "it could replace Red Hat immediately,
with lots of advantages". One of the features he likes was that the Gentoo
documentation was "actively being developed", in comparison with many
distributions that "just write an install guide and stop". He describes
one of the more difficult aspects of his job as encouraging discussion and
making decisions about the way documentation needs to go, "knowing that
your actions will upset some people, and make others happy".
Sven noted that Dutch documentation was not yet being developed, so he
started doing translations of the existing English documents and
forwarding them to John Davis, who was then leading the documentation
team. Eventually, John gave Sven and some of the other more active
translators direct CVS access so they could keep the documentation up to
date. When Gentoo's new management structure went into effect earlier this
year, Sven was asked (as one of the more active documentation developers)
to take over the lead role.
Sven works on a laptop most of the time, but also has two desktop
computers: a gateway and a development server. In addition, he has a
4-computer openMosix array. He is a fluxbox[8] user (although he confesses
to a fondness for larswm[9]). His standard set of tools includes:
aterm[10], vim[11], mutt[12], slrn[13], mozilla[14] and irssi[15]. When
not doing schoolwork or Gentoo documentation, Sven like to play Squash, go
to movies, or hang out with friends in a local pub. When asked to describe
Gentoo, he responded that "some call it source-based, some call it fast,
some call it flexible, I call it adaptive", which makes him certain that
Gentoo will continue to be a top player. Sven's favorite quote is from
Einstein: Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the former.
8. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/
9. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~larsb/larswm/
10. http://aterm.sourceforge.net/
11. http://www.vim.org/
12. http://www.mutt.org/
13. http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
14. http://www.mozilla.org/
15. http://irssi.org/
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3. Gentoo Security
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GLSAs
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Note: There were no new security announcements this week.
New Security Bug Reports
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The following new security bugs were posted this week:
* net-analyzer/ethereal[16]
16. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32691
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4. Heard in the Community
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Web Forums
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OpenSSL 0.9.7 Breakages
Progressing from OpenSSL 0.9.6 to the next minor release number was
messier than most people may have expected, but it isn't exactly a new
problem. The ebuild actually contains a warning that makes it perfectly
clear what will happen, but hey, who reads those before emerging the
world? As a consequence, several threads in the Forums had to deal with
the repercussions of broken dependencies and how to rebuild stuff that
links to the wrong library after the upgrade to OpenSSL. The main thread
stands six months old towering over all the others, and conveniently
including the canonical solution:
* Howto for build openssl >= 0.9.7[17]
* Aliz' OpenSSL update shell script[18]
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54003
18. http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz/openssl_update.sh
gentoo-user
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Testing CFLAGS User list contributor Robo did some rather interesting
[19] tests on how different CFLAGS settings affect an older Pentium MMX
processor this week. Some of the results are different than what one might
think...
19. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/52619
gentoo-dev
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Gentoo on vservers.
Gentoo is already available on a wide variety of types of boxes, but as
always, where we are is never the best spot! here[20] is a post
questioning what needs to happen for Gentoo to become a viable alternative
for vservers.
20. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/13638
Beta packages site.
Like to know what packages have been released in the portage tree
recently? Well look no further, packages.gentoo.org[21] has just started
it's beta release. Don't worry if it's down, it is beta still so it will
probably be up and down as it is perfected. Check it out! Check out the
announcement on the -dev mailing list here[22].
21. http://packages.gentoo.org
22. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/13595
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5. Gentoo International
=======================
New Russian and Greek Forums Online
A big step forward for the Gentoo Forums: Both Greek and Russian Gentoo
users now have a support section of their own at forums.gentoo.org[23].
These being the first two in a future line of non-western alphabet
languages supported at the forums, encoding and character sets are being
vividly discussed among users and their moderators. As one of the Greek
forum[24] moderators, Ioannis aka Deathwing00[25], explains, most Greeks
are used to type in "Greeklish", a rather awkward way of writing Greek
with Latin characters. Getting used to switchable keymaps takes some
effort and isn't easily done, but a Greek Keyboard Howto is being prepared
for inclusion in the stickies of the new forum. With the Greek still
figuring out which way they want to go, their Russian colleagues have
similar problems to solve. KOI-8R, the quasi-standard in Unix for cyrillic
characters, is still dominant in Unix circles, an ever-growing number of
people are demanding Unicode instead. Anyway, moderator Sergey or
svyatogor[26] has implemented an automatic encoding detection for the
Russian forum[27], thus alleviating the problem for both camps. By the
way, forum moderators lately seem to have a tendency to live abroad, with
only Slammer[28] actually living in Greece. Siberian Mihail aka ghuug[29]
is covering things from West Africa where he's a sysadmin for several
companies and running the Ghana Unix Users Group[30], while his co-mod
svyatogor is in Cyprus (not exactly part of the Russian federation,
either), and Greek mod Deathwing00 has been living near Barcelona since
age 6... forums.gentoo.org[31].
23. http://forums.gentoo.org
24. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=44
25. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=22704
26. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=14275
27. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=43
28. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17311
29. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=19983
30. http://ghuug.org
31. http://forums.gentoo.org
Germany: Regional Gentoo User Meeting in Hamburg
After an unsuccessful attempt last winter to achieve critical mass of
Gentoo users north of the Elbe river for a regional meeting, things are
definitely looking brighter this autumn: The Hamburg Gentoo Users Meeting
(GUM) is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, 7 December 2003, starting
around 18:00 hours at the Schachcafe[32], a chess club and restaurant on
the northern rim of town (S-Bhf. R端benkamp). Coordination via the
Forums[33], as always. Interestingly enough, the German forum has
established a collective GUM thread[34] listing all regional groups that
have managed to meet in the flesh.
32. http://www.schachcafe-hamburg.de/
33. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36825
34. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=88917
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6. Portage Watch
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Portage Watch is on hiatus this week.
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7. Bugzilla
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Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[35]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 31 October 2003 and 06 November 2003, activity
on the site has resulted in:
35. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 490 new bugs during this period
* 252 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 12 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 4040 currently open bugs: 106 are labeled 'blocker', 189 are
labeled 'critical', and 319 are labeled 'major'.
Closed Bug Rankings
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo KDE team[36], with 32 closed bugs[37]
* Gentoo Games[38], with 18 closed bugs[39]
* SpanKY[40], with 13 closed bugs[41]
* Martin Schlemmer[42], with 13 closed bugs[43]
* Sven Vermeulen[44], with 10 closed bugs[45]
36. [email protected]
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11-06&resolution=FIX
ED&[email protected]
38. [email protected]
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11-06&resolution=FIX
ED&[email protected]
40. [email protected]
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11-06&resolution=FIX
ED&[email protected]
42. [email protected]
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11-06&resolution=FIX
ED&[email protected]
44. [email protected]
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch
field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11-06&resolution=FIX
ED&[email protected]
New Bug Rankings
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Portage Team[46], with 25 new bugs[47]
* Desktop Miscellaneous Team[48], with 11 new bugs[49]
* Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers[50], with 10 new bugs[51]
* Seemant Kulleen[52], with 8 new bugs[53]
46. [email protected]
47.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11
-06&[email protected]
48. [email protected]
49.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11
-06&[email protected]
50. [email protected]
51.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11
-06&[email protected]
52. [email protected]
53.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-10-31&chfieldto=2003-11
-06&[email protected]
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8. Tips and Tricks
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Spell Checking with Aspell
This week's tip demonstrates spell checking a file withaspell. aspell.
While aspell comes with it's own dictionary, it also allows you to create
and maintain a personal dictionary as well. There are many uses of aspell,
but this week we are just going to look at interactively spell checking a
file.
To install aspell, you need to install the app-text/aspell package and any
language-based dictionaries you want aspell to check against (e.g.
app-dicts/aspell-en). For a list of available dictionaries, use emerge
search 'aspell-'.
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| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Installing aspell and the English dictionary |
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| |
|# emerge app-text/aspell |
|# emerge app-dicts/aspell-en |
| |
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Now that aspell is installed, you can use it to check a document. Start by
typing aspell check file, where file is the file you want to edit. If
there are potentially misspelled words, you will see the the file and an
option window at the bottom of your terminal. In the option window are
suggested replacements and some options like ignore, replace, add, etc.
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| Code Listing 8.2: |
| Using aspell |
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| |
|% aspell check tips-20031110.xml |
|file contents skipped... |
|secthead |
| |
|1) sect head 6) scythed |
|2) sect-head 7) swathed |
|3) scathed 8) Scheat |
|4) seethed 9) soothed |
|5) sketched 0) secured |
|i) Ignore I) Ignore all |
|r) Replace R) Replace all |
|a) Add l) Add Lower |
|b) Abort x) Exit |
|? a |
|secthead was added to my personal dictionary |
| |
|-- |
| |
|Engliash |
| |
|1) English 6) Anglia's |
|2) Englisher 7) Anglia |
|3) English's 8) Inglis |
|4) Englished 9) Anguish |
|5) Englishes 0) Unleash |
|i) Ignore I) Ignore all |
|r) Replace R) Replace all |
|a) Add l) Add Lower |
|b) Abort x) Exit |
| |
|? 1 |
|The misspelled word was replaced with option 1) English |
| |
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When Aspell finishes, you will see file.bak created as a backup copy of
your document. To view your personal dictionary, use the command aspell
dump personal. For more information, see http://aspell.sourceforge.net or
use aspell --help.
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9. Moves, Adds and Changes
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Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* none this week
Adds
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Don Seiler (rizzo) - web-apps, gaim
* Ciaran McCreesh (ciaranm) - sparc
* Ilya Volynets (iluxa) - mips
Changes
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project.
* none this week
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Sergey Kuleshov <[email protected]> - Russian Translator
Alex Spirin <[email protected]> - Russian Translator
Dmitry Suzdalev <[email protected]> - Russian Translator
Anton Vorovatov <[email protected]> - Russian Translator
Denis Zaletov <[email protected]> - Russian Translator
Lanark <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Fernando J. Pereda <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Lluis Peinado Cifuentes <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Zephryn Xirdal T <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Guillermo Juarez <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Jes炭s Garc鱈a Crespo <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Carlos Castillo <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Julio Castillo <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Sergio G坦mez <[email protected]> - Spanish Translation
Aycan Irican <[email protected]> - Turkish Translation
Bugra Cakir <[email protected]> - Turkish Translation
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