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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061120-newsletter.xml |
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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 20 November 2006. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Help test the new Bugzilla |
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The Gentoo infrastructure team have rolled out the new Bugzilla for two to |
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four weeks of testing. They hope to have the new Bugzilla up and running in |
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time for Christmas. |
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Important improvements include: |
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* Newer version of Bugzilla from upstream |
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* Much more database horse-power |
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* Automatic failover between database machines |
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* A much better backup system, which should increase availability at |
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night |
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You can help test by using the new Bugzilla when you're searching for |
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existing bugs. In lieu of pointing your browser to http://bugs.gentoo.org, |
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use http://bugstest.gentoo.org, instead. |
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Note: This server is not running with production data. Any bugs you file |
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will not be seen by any developers. Please file all bugs on the normal bug |
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tracker[1]. |
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If you find any bugs, please report them in the production Bugzilla[1], |
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assigned to infra-bugs@g.o, with 'bugstest' in the summary. Robin |
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Johnson fears there may be some UTF-8 issues, so help from non-ASCII |
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Gentoo-ers is particularly needed. |
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1. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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Thanks to Mike Doty[2], Robin Johnson[3], Lance Albertson[4], Ned Ludd[5], |
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Jeff Forman[6], and Corey Shields[7] for all their hard work. Thanks to |
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GNi[8] for hardware and colocation services to make it all run. |
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2. kingtaco@g.o |
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3. robbat2@g.o |
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4. ramereth@g.o |
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5. solar@g.o |
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6. jforman@g.o |
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7. cshields@××××××.org |
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8. http://www.gni.com |
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For more information, please read Robin's original gentoo-dev list |
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announcement.[9] |
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9. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_141090.xml |
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2. Heard in the community |
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gentoo-user |
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Accidentally deleted contents of /sbin |
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In a horrifying wildcard accident, James Colby deleted the entire contents |
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of his /sbin directory. Quickwittedly, he did basic damage control by |
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copying the contents of /sbin from a stage 3 tarball to his own denuded |
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/sbin. He asked if he needed to do an emerge world to restore his /sbin to |
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its former state. |
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Both Geistteufel and Bo Ørsted Andresen suggest ways to determine which |
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packages actually had files residing in /sbin and then re-emerging them. |
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Geistteufel suggested running equery b /sbin as root. This would yield a |
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list of each package with a file residing in /sbin. Each of these packages |
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would then be re-emerged. Bo Ørsted Andresen's solution automated the |
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process: |
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| Code Listing 2.1 | |
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| Bo Ørsted Andresen's Solution | |
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| # cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -va1 \ | |
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| > $(for pkg in */*; do cut -d' ' -f2 "${pkg}"/CONTENTS \ | |
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| > | grep -q '^/sbin/' && echo "=${pkg}" done) | |
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+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
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Responders agreed that re-emerging world would be excessive. |
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* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_103857.xml |
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Using LINGUAS on a per package basis like with USE |
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Fernando Canizo has set both the English and Spanish LINGUAS flags in his |
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system (LINGUAS="en es"). However, he'd prefer to decide on a |
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package-by-package basis which language to use, similar to setting a flag in |
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his /etc/portage/package.use file. |
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Bo Ørsted Andresen pointed out that Fernando could use the IUSE flags |
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linguas_es and linguas_en like any other per-package flag in |
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/etc/portage/package.use. This is because the LINGUAS flags were |
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USE_EXPANDED to those IUSE flags anyway. He also provided a pointer to the |
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relevant section of the devmanual[10]. |
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10. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html#use_expand-and-arch-use-flags |
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* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_103893.xml |
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gentoo-cluster |
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SC06 -- check out SiCortex |
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Donnie Berkholz[11] invited all attendees at the recently-held |
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SuperComputing 06[12] conference to visit the booth of SiCortex. SiCortex is |
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developing two MIPS cluster products, one with 5,800 nodes and the other |
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with 650 nodes. The clusters will run Gentoo. |
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11. dberkholz@g.o |
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12. http://sc06.supercomputing.org/ |
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Brian D. Ropers-Huilman reported that he'd already stopped by their booth |
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and was impressed by an 8 TF cluster that consumed a mere 18KW. However, he |
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wasn't sure when they were entering production nor if they were really using |
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Gentoo. |
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Joel Martin[13], who works at SiCortex as well as volunteering for Gentoo as |
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a developer, provided more information on their offerings. Within a few |
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months, SiCortex will be offering a 5,832 processor (972 6-core nodes) with |
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8GB RAM-per-node at less than the US$2,000,000 price point. And it will |
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definitely run Gentoo. |
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13. kanaka@g.o |
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For more information, Joe pointed readers to SiCortex's whitepaper |
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collection[14]. |
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14. http://sicortex.com/prod_white.shtml |
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* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-cluster/msg_00945.xml |
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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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* Rémi Cardona (remi`) Gnome team |
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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: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities |
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Several Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenSSH. |
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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-200611-06.xml |
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GraphicsMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows |
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GraphicsMagick improperly handles PALM and DCM images, potentially resulting |
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in the execution of arbitrary code. |
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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-200611-07.xml |
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RPM: Buffer overflow |
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RPM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and possibly the execution of |
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arbitrary code when opening specially crafted packages. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[17] |
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17. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-08.xml |
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libpng: Denial of Service |
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A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash applications |
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that handle untrusted images. |
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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-200611-09.xml |
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WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Flaws in WordPress allow a Denial of Service, the disclosure of user |
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metadata and the overwriting of restricted files. |
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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-200611-10.xml |
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5. Upcoming package removals |
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This is a list of packages that have been announced to be removed in the |
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future. The package removals come from many locations, including the |
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Treecleaners[20] and various developers. |
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20. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners |
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Last-Rites: |
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Package: Removal date: Contact: |
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app-laptop/pmud 13 Dec 06 Joseph Jezak[21] |
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app-laptop/wmbatppc 13 Dec 06 Joseph Jezak[21] |
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dev-ada/adabroker 14 Dec 06 George Shapovalov[22] |
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sci-mathematics/gturing 15 Dec 06 Markus Dittrich[23] |
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net-proxy/dansguardian-dgav 17 Dec 06 Alin Nastac[24] |
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net-dialup/gigaset-isdn 18 Jan 07 Alin Nastac[24] |
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dev-ada/adaopengl 14 Dec 06 George Shapovalov[22] |
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dev-ada/adabindx 14 Dec 06 George Shapovalov[22] |
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21. josejx@g.o |
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22. george@g.o |
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23. markusle@g.o |
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24. mrness@g.o |
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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[1]) to record and track |
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bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development |
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team. Between 12 November 2006 and 19 November 2006, activity on the site |
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has resulted in: |
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1. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 776 new bugs during this period |
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* 409 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 21 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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* 148 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this |
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period |
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* 176 bugs marked as duplicates during this period |
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Of the 10911 currently open bugs: 27 are labeled 'blocker', 102 are labeled |
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'critical', and 479 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 Linux Gnome Desktop Team[25], with 24 closed bugs[26] |
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* Gentoo Games[27], with 22 closed bugs[28] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[29], with 17 closed bugs[30] |
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* Portage team[31], with 13 closed bugs[32] |
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* PPC Porters[33], with 12 closed bugs[34] |
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* Desktop Misc. Team[35], with 10 closed bugs[36] |
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* AMD64 Project[37], with 10 closed bugs[38] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[39], with 9 closed bugs[40] |
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25. gnome@g.o |
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26. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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27. games@g.o |
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28. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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29. kde@g.o |
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30. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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31. dev-portage@g.o |
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32. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dev-portage@g.o |
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33. ppc@g.o |
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34. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc@g.o |
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35. desktop-misc@g.o |
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36. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=desktop-misc@g.o |
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37. amd64@g.o |
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38. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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39. sound@g.o |
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40. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@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[41], with 31 new bugs[42] |
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* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[43], with 11 new bugs[44] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[45], with 9 new bugs[46] |
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* AMD64 Project[37], with 7 new bugs[47] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[39], with 6 new bugs[48] |
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* Java team[49], with 6 new bugs[50] |
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* Gentoo Games[27], with 6 new bugs[51] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[29], with 5 new bugs[52] |
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27. games@g.o |
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29. kde@g.o |
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37. amd64@g.o |
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39. sound@g.o |
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41. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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42. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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43. maintainer-needed@g.o |
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44. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o |
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45. base-system@g.o |
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46. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=base-system@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=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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48. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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49. java@g.o |
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50. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=java@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=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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52. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-11-12&chfieldto=2006-11-19&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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