[gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 13 February 2006

[Ulrich Plate]

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1. Gentoo news
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eselect 1.0 released
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Version 1.0 of eselect[1], the modular configuration framework, has been 
released. For developers, eselect simplifies the creation of -config and 
-update tools in the same way that the original ebuild simplified building 
software. For end users, eselect provides a more consistent interface and, 
as a side effect, implements part of GLEP 24[2] by making it easy to find 
available configuration tools. Interested users may install 
app-admin/eselect, if they do not have it already. There is also a user 
guide[3] and a developer guide[4] available online.

 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/
 2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0024.html
 3. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/user-guide.xml
 4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/dev-guide.xml
    
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2. Gentoo international
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Poland: Fluffy Gentoo
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Plusiaczek Linux[5] (roughly translates to "fluffy" in English) has been 
released. Plusiaczek is an i686 LiveCD based on Gentoo and designed as a 
general purpose distro for Polish Linux users. It ships with KDE 3.5.1, 
packing only what the author considers its most useful applications, and a 
set of others like Wine, k3b, Koffice, Scribus, Frozen-bubble, PHP, MySQL, 
Postgres and XFCE. The 577MB ISO can be downloaded from sourceforge[6], is 
entirely in Polish, but can be "remastered" to use any other language. 
Author Piotr Maliński can be contacted by email[7] or via the web site (of 
which an English version[8] is available, too). 

 5. http://www.linux.rk.edu.pl
 6. 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=152689&package_id=179375
 7. riklaunim@×××××.com
 8. http://www.english.rk.edu.pl
    
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3. Gentoo in the press
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Holehan (10 February 2006)
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Florian Grässle of OpenUsability.org[9] reports about a major revamp for 
Karim Ryde's Kuroo, the KDE Portage GUI project[10]. It's undergone 
several changes that make it look much more KDEsque, and includes a number 
of new features, too. 

 9. http://openusability.org/
 10. 
http://holehan.blogspot.com/2006/02/kuroo-gui-for-gentoos-portage-meets.html
    
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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: 
 
 * None this week 
    
Adds
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: 
 
 * Mark Kowarsky (mark_alec) - Forums  
 * Scott Stoddard (deltacow) - AMD64  
 * Josh Saddler (nightmorph) - Documentation  
    
Changes
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
 
 * None this week 
    
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5. Gentoo Security
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ADOdb: PostgresSQL command injection
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ADOdb is vulnerable to SQL injections if used in conjunction with a 
PostgreSQL database. 
 
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11] 

 11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-02.xml
    
Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities
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Apache can be exploited for cross-site scripting attacks and is vulnerable 
to a Denial of Service attack. 
 
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[12] 

 12. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200602-03.xml
     
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6. Bugzilla
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Statistics
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[13]) to record and 
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the 
development team. Between 05 February 2006 and 12 February 2006, activity 
on the site has resulted in: 

 13. http://bugs.gentoo.org
 
 * 894 new bugs during this period 
 * 476 bugs closed or resolved during this period 
 * 24 previously closed bugs were reopened this period 
 
Of the 9272 currently open bugs: 77 are labeled 'blocker', 153 are labeled 
'critical', and 522 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 Games[14], with 29 closed bugs[15]  
 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[16], with 22 closed bugs[17]  
 * Stefano Rossi[18], with 16 closed bugs[19]  
 * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[20], with 16 closed bugs[21]  
 * AMD64 Porting Team[22], with 14 closed bugs[23]  
 * Printing Team[24], with 13 closed bugs[25]  
 * Text-Markup Team[26], with 11 closed bugs[27]  
 * Gentoo Sound Team[28], with 11 closed bugs[29]  
 14. games@g.o
 15. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o
 16. base-system@g.o
 17. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o
 18. so@g.o
 19. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=so@g.o
 20. gnome@g.o
 21. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@g.o
 22. amd64@g.o
 23. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o
 24. printing@g.o
 25. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=printing@g.o
 26. text-markup@g.o
 27. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=text-markup@g.o
 28. sound@g.o
 29. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound@g.o

    
New bug rankings
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during 
this period are: 
 
 * Default Assignee for New Packages[30], with 38 new bugs[31]  
 * AMD64 Porting Team[32], with 23 new bugs[33]  
 * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[34], with 14 new bugs[35]  
 * Gentoo Sound Team[36], with 13 new bugs[37]  
 * Gentoo Games[38], with 8 new bugs[39]  
 * Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[40], with 7 new bugs[41]  
 * Gentoo KDE team[42], with 7 new bugs[43]  
 * Mozilla Gentoo Team[44], with 6 new bugs[45]  
 30. maintainer-wanted@g.o
 31. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o
 32. amd64@g.o
 33. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=amd64@g.o
 34. maintainer-needed@g.o
 35. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o
 36. sound@g.o
 37. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=sound@g.o
 38. games@g.o
 39. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=games@g.o
 40. toolchain@g.o
 41. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=toolchain@g.o
 42. kde@g.o
 43. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=kde@g.o
 44. mozilla@g.o
 45. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2006-02-05&chfieldto=2006-02-12&assigned_to=mozilla@g.o

    
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