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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 21 November 2005. |
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1. Gentoo news |
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European Gentoo Developer Conference |
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Around 20 participants spent an icy November day at Schloss Kransberg[1], |
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the venue for the second European Gentoo developer conference. Hosted in |
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splendid isolation outside Frankfurt by GWN editor Ulrich Plate[2], the |
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all-day event was attended by developers from Denmark, France, Switzerland |
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Germany and the Netherlands. |
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1. http://www.schloss-kransberg.de |
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2. plate@g.o |
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Figure 1.1: Devs pYrania and tantive with Forum regular Inte in front of |
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the castle |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20051121_castle.jpg |
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The program included presentations by Damien Krotkine[3] who explained his |
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libconf approach to make configuration file management a more rational |
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affair, and Fabian Groffen who gave a rundown of past and future |
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endeavours of the reanimated Gentoo on Mac OS X project. Markus Nigbur[4] |
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introduced his efforts at rewriting the old Gentoo statistics client, |
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gentoo-stats, which is humming away nicely in a test environment, but has |
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to wait for the latest PHP and MySQL in the stable tree before it becomes |
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eligible for official hosting. |
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3. dams@g.o |
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4. pyrania@g.o |
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Figure 1.2: Short break between presentations |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20051121_devcon.jpg |
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A big part of the discussion before lunch was centered around efforts to |
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set up a master mirror in Europe to help alleviate the load on Gentoo's |
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infrastructure at OSU. Patrick Lauer[5] gave a status report on |
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negotiations with potential sponsors, the scope and timeline for setting |
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up a master distfiles and/or rsync mirror was discussed, and the |
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participants agreed on aiming to get everything up and running before the |
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2006.0 release. |
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5. patrick@g.o |
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Tobias Scherbaum[6] presented an overview of the redesign efforts at the |
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German Gentoo website which include development of a content management |
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system to benefit other national web presences, too, Ulrich Plate reported |
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about a number of Gentoo book projects currently in planning or making, |
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and the afternoon session closed with a lightning talk by the castle's |
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owner and guest speaker Klaus Landefeld[7] who introduced the local CraNet |
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infrastructure project that connects households in the Kransberg village |
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via Linux-based WLAN routers to the castle's WLL internet uplink. The |
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open-floor discussion just before dinner touched on other topics, with |
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demands for wider tinderbox availability ranking highest. |
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6. dertobi123@g.o |
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7. klaus@×××××××××.net |
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The Kransberg meeting is due to be repeated, on an alternating schedule |
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with developer meetings at Brussels' FOSDEM in February. Next year it will |
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be detached from the German edition of the Linux World Expo, and moved |
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ahead on the calendar towards the end of summer, to avoid the sound of |
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clattering teeth interrupting presentations. And since several developers |
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had expressed interest in attending and presenting papers at the |
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conference, but couldn't find the financial means in their budgets, |
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finding sponsors to cover travel expenses will be an important part of the |
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preparations for the next time. |
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2005.1 media refresh: 2005.1-r1 released |
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A media refresh over the 2005.1 release has been announced on Sunday. |
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Since it mainly contains bug fixes, not all architectures warranted this |
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intermediate release, but namely AMD64, PPC64, SPARC, and x86 took the |
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opportunity to refresh their stages and installation CD images before next |
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year's 2006.0 release. Install media for other architectures than the ones |
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mentioned, and all 2005.1 package CDs remain unchanged and are available |
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as-is. |
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Gentoo Weekly News via RSS feed |
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Thanks to Xavier Neys[8], the GWN is now available as an RSS feed. Xavier |
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added the rss.xml files and edited the English[9] and French[10] overview |
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pages to mention the feed at the beginning. The list of languages at the |
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end of the overview file also lists the available feeds. |
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8. neysx@g.o |
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9. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml |
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10. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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phpgroupware no longer in the tree |
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Due to outstanding security bugs, the upstream homepage no longer being |
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available, and no releases in over a year, phpgroupware will be removed |
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from the Portage tree. Anyone still using it is asked to switch to |
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egroupware or any other suitable replacement. |
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2. Heard in the community |
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gentoo-dev |
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use.defaults and pointless commits |
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Some users may have wondered why some USE flags seemingly automatically |
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changed (and reverted a bit later). This was caused by a commit to |
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use.defaults, a file that is used by portage to set USE flags on package |
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installation (emerge gnutls and the gnutls USE flag will be set globally). |
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During the following discussion it became apparent that this is a mostly |
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unneeded feature that may be removed in the future. |
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* [11] |
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11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/32923 |
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Gentoo Council Meeting, GLEP 41 |
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The Gentoo Council had its third monthly meeting on November 15. The |
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summary was posted to the mailing list shortly after. GLEP 41 (Making arch |
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testers official Gentoo staff), which was not accepted during the last |
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meeting as it needed some minor changes, was accepted by the council. Due |
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to a communication error it seemed as if there were last minute changes |
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(which were only communicated a bit late). This lead to a long discussion |
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about procedures, the content of the GLEP and became one of the largest |
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threads of the last months. |
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* Gentoo Council Meeting Summary [12] |
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* Email subdomain [13] |
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* Request for changes to GLEP 41 [14] |
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* implementation details for GLEP 41 [15] |
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12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/32886 |
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13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/32931 |
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14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/33025 |
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15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/33030 |
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3. Gentoo international |
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Italy: Only five days to go until Gentoo Day! |
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The schedule[16] for the 3rd Italian Gentoo Day has been published, |
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including highlights like the first public presentation on Gentoo FreeBSD |
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by a Gentoo developer, Diego Pettenò[17]. His introductory speech will be |
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followed by an assisted installation session, while other activists of the |
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GeCHI[18] center their talks around applications like Openoffice and GIMP. |
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Three parallel tracks will make the Gentoo Day a luxurious event for |
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everyone who'd like to learn more about Gentoo. Details about the event |
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can be found at the official Gentoo Forum thread[19] and the GeCHI's own |
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forum[20] (all links in Italian)." |
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http://213.92.116.64/ical/day.php?cal=all_calendars_combined971&getdate=200 |
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17. flameeyes@g.o |
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18. http://ww.gechi.it |
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19. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2853724.html |
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20. http://www.gechi.it/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1632 |
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4. Gentoo in the press |
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Distrowatch (14 November 2005) |
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Kororaa[21] is an installer project spun off Gentoo Linux, or as Ladislav |
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Bodnar puts it[22], "an independently developed, user-friendly |
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installation method for Gentoo Linux and a full-featured Gentoo-based |
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distribution." The announcement on Distrowatch comes as the the second |
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beta version of Kororaa was released, to be followed by a Gnome version |
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called Gororaa soon. |
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21. http://kororaa.org |
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22. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03042 |
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Linux.com (31 October 2005) |
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Irfan Habib[23] makes mention of Portage as one specimen of "a new breed |
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of distributed package management systems" that aim to overcome the |
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defects of traditional package managers. His article at Linux.com[24] |
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compares Portage to Conary[25], a binary distribution tree used by |
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rPath[26], evaluating inherent differences and similarities in both |
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methods' network-based repository approach. |
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23. irfan.habib@×××××.com |
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24. http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/05/10/31/1949218.shtml |
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25. http://wiki.conary.com/ |
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26. http://www.rpath.com/ |
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5. Gentoo developer moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: |
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* None this week |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: |
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* Joshua Nichols (nichoj) - Java |
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* Damian Florczyk (thunder) - Gentoo/NetBSD lead |
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* Alexey Chumakov (achumakov) - Russian lead translator |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project: |
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* Lisa M. Seelye (lisa) - added ccache and memcached to prior |
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6. Gentoo Security |
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Scorched 3D: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Scorched 3D allow a remote attacker to deny |
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service or execute arbitrary code on game servers. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[27] |
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27. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-12.xml |
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Sylpheed, Sylpheed-Claws: Buffer overflow in LDIF importer |
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws contain a buffer overflow vulnerability which |
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may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[28] |
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28. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-13.xml |
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GTK+ 2, GdkPixbuf: Multiple XPM decoding vulnerabilities |
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The GdkPixbuf library, that is also included in GTK+ 2, contains |
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vulnerabilities that could lead to a Denial of Service or the execution of |
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arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[29] |
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29. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-14.xml |
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Smb4k: Local unauthorized file access |
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A vulnerability has been identified that allows unauthorized access to the |
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contents of /etc/sudoers and /etc/super.tab files. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[30] |
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30. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-15.xml |
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7. Bugzilla |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[31]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 13 November 2005 and 20 November 2005, activity |
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on the site has resulted in: |
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31. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 680 new bugs during this period |
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* 364 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 28 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 9040 currently open bugs: 106 are labeled 'blocker', 199 are |
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labeled 'critical', and 556 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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* Alexey Chumakov[32], with 22 closed bugs[33] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[34], with 19 closed bugs[35] |
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* Gentoo Games[36], with 19 closed bugs[37] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[38], with 18 closed bugs[39] |
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* Gentoo Security[40], with 13 closed bugs[41] |
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* PPC Porters[42], with 13 closed bugs[43] |
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* Gentoo Science Related Packages[44], with 11 closed bugs[45] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[46], with 10 closed bugs[47] |
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32. achumakov@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=achumakov@g.o |
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34. kde@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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36. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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38. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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40. security@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o |
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42. ppc@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc@g.o |
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44. sci@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sci@g.o |
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46. x11@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=x11@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[48], with 44 new bugs[49] |
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* X11 External Driver Maintainers[50], with 10 new bugs[51] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[52], with 9 new bugs[53] |
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* Gentoo Science Related Packages[54], with 9 new bugs[55] |
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* Gentoo X-windows packagers[56], with 8 new bugs[57] |
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* Xavier Neys[58], with 7 new bugs[59] |
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* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[60], with 7 new |
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bugs[61] |
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* Lim Swee Tat[62], with 6 new bugs[63] |
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48. maintainer-wanted@g.o |
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50. x11-drivers@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=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&assigned_to=x11-drivers@g.o |
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52. 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=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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54. sci@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=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&assigned_to=sci@g.o |
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56. x11@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=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&assigned_to=x11@g.o |
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58. neysx@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=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&assigned_to=neysx@g.o |
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60. kernel@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=2005-11-13&chfieldto=2005-11-20&assigned_to=kernel@g.o |
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62. st_lim@g.o |
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8. GWN feedback |
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64. gwn-feedback@g.o |
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10. Other languages |
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* English[67] |
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* German[68] |
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* French[69] |
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* Korean[70] |
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* Japanese[71] |
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* Italian[72] |
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* Polish[73] |
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* Portuguese (Brazil)[74] |
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* Portuguese (Portugal)[75] |
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* Spanish[77] |
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65. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml |
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66. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml |
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67. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml |
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68. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml |
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69. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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70. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ko/gwn/gwn.xml |
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71. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml |
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72. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml |
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73. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml |
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74. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml |
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75. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml |
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76. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml |
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77. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml |
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78. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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