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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 24 July 2006. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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Sun T2000 donation |
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On June 20th, Gentoo was approached by David Killian from Sun's Niagara |
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Product Team, offering a Niagara box for development, porting, and |
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testing. The T2000 is equipped with the new UltraSPARC T1 processor, a |
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massive, yet very power efficient, 8-core multithreading processor. The |
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machine is being hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Labs |
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and it currently being used to build the upcoming 2006.1 release. It will |
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then be used for further development by SPARC-team members, and other |
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Gentoo developers whom do not have access to SPARC equipment. |
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For the curious, there is a boot log[1] provided by Gustavo Zacarias[2] in |
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his developer web space. |
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1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/bender-bootlog.txt |
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2. gustavoz@g.o |
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Ethereal moves to wireshark |
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As many of you may already know, Ethereal[3] has moved to Wireshark[4]. |
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Due to security vulnerabilities, Bug #140856[5], and the assumption that |
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Ethereal is not being developed further[6], Gentoo has decided to drop the |
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Ethereal package in favor of Wireshark. To make this transition as |
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seamless as possible, Wireshark should appear when you attempt to update |
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Ethereal. |
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3. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb396098.htm |
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4. http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2 |
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5. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140856 |
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6. http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-cvs/200605 |
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To keep your filters and other configurations that you had as a user you |
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are required to manually move your Ethereal configuration to Wireshark as |
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follows: |
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| Code Listing 1.1: | |
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| Ethereal to Wireshark configuration change | |
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|cd $HOME | |
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User representatives election open |
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The Gentoo User Relations[7] project is happy to announce that the |
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elections for the position of User Representative[8] are now open. |
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7. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/index.xml |
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8. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/user-relations/userrep.xml |
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The candidates have each written some information[9] about themselves and |
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what they would like to achieve. |
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9. http://dev.gentoo.org/~mark_alec/userrel/elections.html |
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You can only vote once, so carefully consider who you would most like to |
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represent you. To vote, go to the User Representative Elections[10] and |
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select your user representative. |
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10. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-482799.html |
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2. Heard in the community |
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forums |
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Deletion of Inactive user accounts |
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Gentoo developer Tom Knight[11] has made an announcement on the Gentoo |
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Forums, warning that a cron job will be run, starting on the 28th of July |
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and running monthly, to delete inactive user accounts. The current |
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estimate is that the cron job on its first run will delete around 23,000 |
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accounts. More details about the criteria for deletion are available in |
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the announcement. |
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11. tomk@g.o |
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* [forums-announce] Upcoming deletion of inactive accounts[12] |
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12. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-482616.html |
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planet.gentoo.org |
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gentoo-stats test request |
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One of the projects implemented in this year's Google Summer of Code is a |
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new Gentoo stats implementation allowing architecture teams to know how |
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much testing a package gets and what type of CFLAGS and USE flags our |
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users utilize. Though most modules aren't ready yet Marius Mauch[13] put |
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together a tarball to allow users starting test the client-modules that |
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are already supposed to work. |
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13. genone@g.o |
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* gentoo-stats test request[14] |
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14. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/genone/2006/07/22/gentoo_stats_test_request_1 |
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Nostalgic moments |
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Starting with a users asking for old Portage sources Simon Stelling[15] |
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started a trip in Gentoo's history. Besides old Portage 1.5 sources he put |
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together a snapshot of the Portage tree from March 24 2001, just the day |
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after Daniel Robbins added Portage 1.5 to tree. The tarball is "just" 11MB |
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in size (compared to current snapshots which take 30MB) and features 1134 |
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Ebuilds and 648 packages in 51 categories. |
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15. blubb@g.o |
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* Nostalgic moments[16] |
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16. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/blubb/2006/07/18/nostalgic_moments |
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3. Gentoo in the press |
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LXer.com (20 July 2006) |
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Author Hans Kwint has written the second in his series of articles on |
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Gentoo on the desktop, entitled A Gentoo diary part 1[17]. In this |
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article, he writes about switching from lilo to grub, from xmms to |
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audacious, and his setup of an old machine as a server. |
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17. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/65393 |
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4. Gentoo developer moves |
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Moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: |
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* Otavio R. Piske (AngusYoung) |
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Adds |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: |
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* Joshua Ross (joslway) PPC64/Release Engineering |
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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 |
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5. Gentoo security |
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libpng: Buffer overflow |
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A buffer overflow has been found in the libpng library that could lead to |
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the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18] |
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18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-06.xml |
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xine-lib: Buffer overflow |
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A buffer overflow has been found in the libmms library shipped with |
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xine-lib, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19] |
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19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-07.xml |
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GIMP: Buffer overflow |
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GIMP is prone to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of |
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arbitrary code when loading specially crafted XCF files. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20] |
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20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200607-08.xml |
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6. Bugzilla |
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Summary |
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* Statistics |
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* Closed bug ranking |
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* New bug rankings |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[21]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 16 July 2006 and 23 July 2006, activity on the |
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site has resulted in: |
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21. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 869 new bugs during this period |
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* 375 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 27 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 10567 currently open bugs: 52 are labeled 'blocker', 133 are |
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labeled 'critical', and 526 are labeled 'major'. |
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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: |
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* Xavier Neys[22], with 25 closed bugs[23] |
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* Gentoo Games[24], with 20 closed bugs[25] |
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* Portage team[26], with 18 closed bugs[27] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[28], with 15 closed bugs[29] |
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* AMD64 Project[30], with 12 closed bugs[31] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[32], with 10 closed bugs[33] |
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* Java team[34], with 10 closed bugs[35] |
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* Python Gentoo Team[36], with 9 closed bugs[37] |
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22. neysx@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=neysx@g.o |
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24. games@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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26. dev-portage@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=dev-portage@g.o |
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28. gnome@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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30. amd64@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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32. x11@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=x11@g.o |
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34. java@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=java@g.o |
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36. python@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=python@g.o |
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New bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during |
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this period are: |
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* Default Assignee for New Packages[38], with 33 new bugs[39] |
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* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[40], with 11 new bugs[41] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[42], with 11 new bugs[43] |
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* Mozilla Gentoo Team[44], with 9 new bugs[45] |
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* media-video herd[46], with 9 new bugs[47] |
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* AMD64 Project[48], with 9 new bugs[49] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[50], with 8 new bugs[51] |
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* Gentoo Science Related Packages[52], with 7 new bugs[53] |
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38. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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40. maintainer-needed@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o |
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42. base-system@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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44. mozilla@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=mozilla@g.o |
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46. media-video@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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48. amd64@g.o |
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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&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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50. gnome@g.o |
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51. 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&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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52. sci@g.o |
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53. 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&assigned_to=sci@g.o |
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