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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 27 February 2006. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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2006.0 released |
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The first Gentoo Linux in the 2006 series has been available since 0:00 |
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UTC today, complete with three desktop environments (KDE, GNOME and XFCE), |
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GCC 3.4.4 and a 2.6.15 kernel. This milestone release is the first to |
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include the brand new Gentoo Linux Installer, official support for EM64T, |
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a fully-fledged Gnome environment, and NPTL toolchains in various |
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architectures. |
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Architectures from Alpha to Sparc have improved significantly over 2005.1, |
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providing more features and options than ever before, and with PPC64 |
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making Gentoo the first Linux distribution to provide optimized packages |
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not only for the G5, but also the POWER5 architecture. More details about |
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this release can be found on the Release Engineering project's |
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announcement page[1]. |
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1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.0/2006.0.xml |
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Gentoo at FOSDEM 2006 |
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This year's FOSDEM, Europe's most important meeting for open-source |
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development, saw more Gentoo developers and from more countries than ever. |
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Visitors to the Gentoo booth could grab a 2006.0 release on CD for x86, |
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PPC and AMD64 before anyone else, and the presentations at the Gentoo |
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devroom gave a broad overview of activities in the project. |
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The first CDs of the 2006.0 release were selling faster than the three |
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busy burners could produce them, and T-Shirts were sold out by tea time on |
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the first day. The architectures on display managed to raise more than |
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just a few eyebrows: a Sun Ultra 20 running Solaris 9 complete with |
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Portaris, the Portage port to Sun, Inc.'s operating system, and two |
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generations of Genesi[2]'s PowerPC workstations, the Pegasos ODW, were the |
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highlights at the booth. |
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2. http://ww.genesi.lu |
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Figure 1.1: Release media for 2006.0, workstations on display |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_fosdem1.jpg |
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Crowds were particularly thick in front of the Gentoo stand, a major |
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attraction among the many projects represented at the conference. Two |
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dozen Gentoo developers took turns manning the booth, supported by freshly |
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roasted coffee from Chicago, courtesy of Mike Doty[3] who probably needed |
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it most, too. |
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3. kingtaco@g.o |
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Figure 1.2: Left to right: plate, genone, grobian, patrick, hansmi, SeJo, |
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and kingtaco |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_fosdem2.jpg |
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Figure 1.3: Left to right: pvdabeel, usata, ferdy, and wolf31o2 |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_fosdem3.jpg |
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Even the FOSDEM quantum singularity, a traditional event witnessed every |
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year since the first visit of Daniel Robbins[4] to Brussels in 2003, |
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happened at the Gentoo booth. Logic collapsed in a spectacular way when |
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the only wireless connectivity available to all the open-source projects |
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in the corridors of FOSDEM had to be provided temporarily from Jochen |
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Maes'[5] iBook -- running Mac OS X. |
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4. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030224-newsletter.xml |
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5. sejo@g.o |
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3rd European Gentoo Developer Meeting |
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Figure 1.1: Gentoo developers meeting at FOSDEM 2006 |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060227_devroom.jpg |
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Embedded between the morning and afternoon presentations for the general |
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public at the FOSDEM devroom, the third edition of the European Gentoo |
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developer community meeting was anything but a luncheon. 25 developers |
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from around the globe had found their way to Brussels and spent two hours |
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discussing the most pressing issues for Gentoo. The very concentrated |
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debate focussed on how the project should represent itself when appearing |
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in public: conference organization, press relations and PR will be |
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reorganized. |
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Developer relations and recruiting were the second main topic, with Mike |
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Doty promoting the highly successful AMD64 archtesters as a role model for |
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other projects. Archtesters allow for thorough testing of packages until |
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they fail to break under no circumstances, and they typically gain Gentoo |
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developer status much easier because they get a chance to prove their |
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abilities to an entire peer group, not just an individual mentor as in |
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traditional recruiting. |
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Some of the current organizational deficits in the relationship between |
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the Gentoo Foundation and satellite organizations in Europe and elsewhere |
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will be addressed over the next months, with the purpose of binding local |
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support chapters or associations in various countries into a fully-fledged |
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umbrella structure. The aim is to set up the necessary structure to assign |
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and transfer tasks and duties, make funding available where it's most |
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needed, and protect the licenses and trademarks in an effective manner. |
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Bugday on 4 March |
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The Gentoo Documentation Project[6] will be taking part in the upcoming |
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Gentoo Bugday[7] on this coming Saturday, 4 March 2006. There are a number |
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of open bugs that the team wishes to resolve and would like to call upon |
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interested people to join them in #gentoo-bugs and #gentoo-doc and help |
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squash the docs buglist down to zero. |
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6. http://gdp.gentoo.org |
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7. http://bugday.gentoo.org |
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Erratum |
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In the GWN of 6 February, the venue for the spring open-source |
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conference[8] in Tokyo came out slightly garbled. The Japan Electronics |
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College where the conference is going to take place is not in Ogikubo as |
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originally published, but in Okubo. We apologize for the mistake. |
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8. http://www.ospn.jp/osc2006 |
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2. Gentoo international |
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Germany: Chemnitzer Linuxtage |
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Tobias Scherbaum[9], Jens Blaesche and Gentoo's former developer and MIPS |
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port founder Jan Seidel will represent Gentoo at the Chemnitzer |
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Linuxtage[10] next weekend in East Germany's Saxony region. This year's |
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Gentoo booth once again provides easy-access to merchandising articles |
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including Shirts, Posters and Case badges. Especially for users in this |
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region without the possibility of broadband Internet-access the German NFP |
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"Friends of Gentoo e.V.[11]" remastered the 2006.0 release-media and put |
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them together with stages and lots of distfiles on a DVD which will only |
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be sold in Chemnitz. |
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9. dertobi123@g.o |
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10. http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de |
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11. http://www.gentoo-ev.org |
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On Sunday morning, Gentoo Developer Tobias Scherbaum will give a talk |
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about "The Gentoo Metadistribution[12]", an introduction to Gentoos |
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history and evolution, Gentoos special features and technical aspects. |
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Finally we would like to invite Gentoo users to visit our booth and tell |
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us about their first experiences with the last 2006.0 Gentoo release. We |
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are looking forward to meeting you in Chemnitz! |
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12. http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2006/vortraege/detail.html?idx=343 |
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3. Gentoo developer moves |
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Moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: |
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* None this week |
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Adds |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: |
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* None this week |
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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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4. Gentoo Security |
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OpenSSH, Dropbear: Insecure use of system() call |
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A flaw in OpenSSH and Dropbear allows local users to elevate their |
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privileges via scp. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[13] |
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13. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-11.xml |
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GPdf: heap overflows in included Xpdf code |
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GPdf includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it |
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vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[14] |
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14. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-12.xml |
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GraphicsMagick: Format string vulnerability |
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A vulnerability in GraphicsMagick allows attackers to crash the |
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application and potentially execute arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[15] |
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15. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-13.xml |
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noweb: Insecure temporary file creation |
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noweb is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user |
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to overwrite arbitrary files. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[16] |
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16. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-14.xml |
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5. Bugzilla |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[17]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 19 February 2006 and 26 February 2006, activity |
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on the site has resulted in: |
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17. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 785 new bugs during this period |
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* 380 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 26 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 9431 currently open bugs: 65 are labeled 'blocker', 156 are labeled |
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'critical', and 517 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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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[18], with 19 closed bugs[19] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[20], with 14 closed bugs[21] |
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* Perl Devs @ Gentoo[22], with 13 closed bugs[23] |
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* Heinrich Wendel[24], with 12 closed bugs[25] |
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* Gentoo Games[26], with 10 closed bugs[27] |
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* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[28], with 9 closed bugs[29] |
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* Robin Johnson[30], with 9 closed bugs[31] |
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* Xavier Neys[32], with 9 closed bugs[33] |
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18. base-system@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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20. sound@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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22. perl@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=perl@g.o |
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24. lanius@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=lanius@g.o |
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26. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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28. toolchain@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=toolchain@g.o |
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30. robbat2@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=robbat2@g.o |
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32. neysx@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@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[34], with 44 new bugs[35] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[36], with 10 new bugs[37] |
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* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[38], with 9 new bugs[39] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[40], with 8 new bugs[41] |
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* Perl Devs @ Gentoo[42], with 7 new bugs[43] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[44], with 7 new bugs[45] |
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* media-video herd[46], with 6 new bugs[47] |
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* Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage[48], with 6 new |
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bugs[49] |
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34. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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36. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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38. maintainer-needed@g.o |
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40. gnome@g.o |
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42. perl@g.o |
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44. kde@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-19&chfieldto=2006-02-26&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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46. media-video@g.o |
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48. media-tv@g.o |
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