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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 29 May 2006. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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Don't mix and match GCC 3.4 and 4.1 versions |
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It has been discovered that even though GCC 3.4 and 4.1 share the same |
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libstdc++.so version, some slight changes require you to follow the GCC |
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Upgrading Guide[1]. Bug #134447[2] illustrates an example of what may |
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happen upon partial rebuilds (Qt in this case). Sorry for any |
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inconvenience that this error may have caused. |
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1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml |
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2. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134447 |
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GnuPG update |
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gnupg-1.9.20 has been marked stable, allowing its added features[3] |
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GPG-AGENT (passphrase caching) and GPGSM (S/MIME support) to be made |
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available to all users of Gentoo Linux. As the GnuPG developers have |
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indicated[4] these features are ready for production use. Following their |
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recommendation, the gpg executable on your system is still the gnupg-1.4 |
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version, as gnupg-1.4 and gnupg-1.9 are both installed at the same time |
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(in different slots). If you want to use the development version of gpg[5] |
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please enable USE=gpg2-experimental, then emerge gnupg-1.9 and the |
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executable /usr/bin/gpg2 will be installed. It will only be used if |
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explicitly called, and by applications that are gpg2-aware. Not all |
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applications look for gpg2 or understand its interfaces, which is why |
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gnupg-1.4 is also installed. As a result of the stabilization the |
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gpg-agent package is superseeded by gnupg-1.9.20. For information on how |
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to use gpg-agent see Gentoo GnuPG User guide[6]. |
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3. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D132343 |
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4. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2005q4/000209.html |
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5. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/index.html#gnupg2 |
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6. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml |
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Tobias Klausmann, systems administrator for rsync5.de.gentoo.org, was kind |
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enough recently to completely rewrite the Gentoo rsync server guide[7] |
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with fixes both in the instructions and the code snippets. Gentoo |
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developer Jeffrey Forman and the infrastructure team want to thank him for |
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the hard work and appreciate making Gentoo's documentation just a little |
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bit more complete. |
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7. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml |
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2. Developer of the week |
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"A room full of strangers is a room full of potential friends" - Christel |
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Dahlskjaer (christel) |
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Figure 2.1: Christel Dahlskjaer aka Christel |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060529_christel.png |
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One of the more recent additions to the Gentoo development team, already |
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known by many from her function as Freenode staff, Christel Dahlskjaer was |
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originally pulled in to help the User Relations project. Since then she |
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has also infiltrated PR, Events, Gentoo/MIPS, Gentoo/Alpha, Developer |
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Relations and Release Engineering, and she is also Gentoo's administrative |
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contact during this year's Summer of Code contest. "User Relations exists |
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to act as a facilitator for the many user focused projects within Gentoo," |
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she explains. "We are bridging the gap between users and developers by |
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improving the information flow, keeping users and prospective developers |
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informed about the development community. We also deal with complaints." |
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Although she originally came onboard to work on User Relations, she finds |
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much enjoyment in working on the other projects she is taking part in. |
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One of the few active women in the midst of primarily male Gentoo |
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developers, Christel is also a qualified nurse, and currently studies |
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towards a MSc in Forensic Psychology. To keep herself busy and out of |
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trouble, she keeps a number of computers around the house, including an |
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Alpha Server, a Sun Blade 1000, an O2 and "a terribly gorgeous babypink |
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iBook," all of which of course run Gentoo. |
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The question "KDE or Gnome?" has no relevance for a fluxbox user such as |
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Christel -- who lives in Exeter (England) and is "happily not married, |
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yet" -- and irssi is her favourite application, no surprise really, her |
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being a Irssi developer after all, and Senior Freenode Staff, but she |
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insists that "senior" does not necessarily mean "old." |
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3. Heard in the community |
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planet.gentoo.org |
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Perl 5.8.8 is at your door |
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Perl 5.8.8 has been marked stable on most architectures during the last |
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week. Like after every Perl upgrade you have to run perl-cleaner to |
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rebuild all Perl modules and packages linked against the old libperl. |
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* Perl 5.8.8 is at your door[8] |
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8. http://www.datanode.net/?p=211 |
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4. Gentoo international |
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Germany: Winners of the gentoo.de quiz announced |
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As reported[9], the German not-for-profit association "Friends of Gentoo |
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e.V." asked on their community-site gentoo.de "Are you Gentoo?" Now the |
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quiz is over, and the organizers now know that more than 500 participants |
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are Gentoo. The interest in this quiz was so impressive that there will be |
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another quiz in late-summer this year. If you have questions you'd like to |
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see included in that next quiz mail them to www@××××××.de. |
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9. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060508-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3 |
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Congratulations to Benjamin Franzke, Chiara Sannitz and Meik Frischke who |
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won the T-shirt, mouse-pad and Gentoo stickers offered by the "Friends of |
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Gentoo". |
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5. Gentoo in the press |
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Newsforge (22 May 2006) |
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Author Robin Miller gives Gentoo an interesting supporting role in this |
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article[10] about the Debian developer conference DebConf6. Answering his |
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own question why Debian is important, he obviously finds that others get |
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more public visibility: "Novell and Red Hat have significant PR and ad |
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budgets and use them to make lots of noise in the trade press. Gentoo has |
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devoted followers who post pro-Gentoo messages in almost every online |
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discussion about GNU/Linux distributions." Small error: Miller thinks |
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Debian's social contract is unique, which goes to say that maybe Gentoo's |
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devoted followers are at least one pro-Gentoo message[11] short so far. |
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10. http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/05/22/1240231.shtml |
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11. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml |
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6. 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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* Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) - Forums |
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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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7. Bugzilla |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[12]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 21 May 2006 and 28 May 2006, activity on the |
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site has resulted in: |
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12. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 668 new bugs during this period |
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* 401 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 25 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 10054 currently open bugs: 56 are labeled 'blocker', 141 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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* Gentoo Games[13], with 26 closed bugs[14] |
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* Xavier Neys[15], with 22 closed bugs[16] |
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* Portage team[17], with 20 closed bugs[18] |
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* Robin Johnson[19], with 12 closed bugs[20] |
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* Gentoo Kerberos Maintainers[21], with 11 closed bugs[22] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[23], with 11 closed bugs[24] |
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* Gentoo Security[25], with 10 closed bugs[26] |
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* Roy Marples[27], with 9 closed bugs[28] |
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13. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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15. neysx@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@g.o |
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17. dev-portage@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@g.o |
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19. robbat2@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=robbat2@g.o |
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21. kerberos@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kerberos@g.o |
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23. base-system@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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25. security@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o |
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27. uberlord@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=uberlord@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[29], with 27 new bugs[30] |
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* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[31], with 11 new bugs[32] |
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* AMD64 Project[33], with 11 new bugs[34] |
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* Perl Devs @ Gentoo[35], with 10 new bugs[36] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[37], with 8 new bugs[38] |
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* media-video herd[39], with 8 new bugs[40] |
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* Chris White[41], with 8 new bugs[42] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[43], with 7 new bugs[44] |
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29. maintainer-wanted@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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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31. maintainer-needed@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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o |
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33. 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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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35. perl@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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=perl@g.o |
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37. x11@g.o |
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39. media-video@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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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41. chriswhite@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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=chriswhite@g.o |
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43. sound@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=2006-05-21&chfieldto=2006-05-28&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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