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From: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
To: gentoo-gwn@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 25 July 2005
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:29:51
Message-Id: 20050725000514.GB11250@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de
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2 Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
3 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
4 This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 25 July 2005.
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6
7 ==============
8 1. Gentoo News
9 ==============
10
11 Bugzilla: Bug 100000!
12 ---------------------
13
14 In early 2002 Gentoo Bugzilla[1] was started to have a central tool for
15 tracking bugs. Over time, other things like feature requests and version
16 bumps were also tracked as bugs since Bugzilla makes it quite easy.
17
18 1. http://bugs.gentoo.org/
19
20 On Saturday, July 23rd, at 9:58 UTC, bug number 100.000[2] was posted.
21
22 2. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=bug_id&type0-0-0=lessthan&value0-0-0=100001&field0-0-1=noop&type0-0-1=noop&value0-0-1=&field0-1-0=bug_id&type0-1-0=greaterthan&value0-1-0=99989
23
24 Figure 1.1: Bug 100000 in Gentoo Bugzilla
25 http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050725_bug.png
26
27 This is a numerical milestone that shows how popular Bugzilla has become.
28 The database weighs in at almost 1,5GB! The current rate is just over 100
29 new bugs a day with a small spike on weekends and a larger spike during
30 the BugDays[3] that are taking all available timezones to expand to almost
31 two days these days.
32
33 3. http://bugday.gentoo.org/
34
35 Without the constant tweaks and upgrades by Jeffrey Forman[4] this
36 wouldn't be possible. Also, a big thanks to the bugwranglers that manage
37 the bugs and keep us from drowning in the constant flood of new bugs!
38
39 4. jforman@g.o
40
41 Keeping gentoo-sources-2.4
42 --------------------------
43
44 In last week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter we wrote about “Discontinuing
45 Gentoo-2.4-sources”[5]. Due to the whole bunch of e-mails the Gentoo
46 kernel team received, they decided to keep gentoo-sources-2.4 beside
47 vanilla-sources-2.4.
48
49 5. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050718-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1
50
51 There was an update to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1[6], which is
52 masked ~x86 currently. Gentoo developer Tim Yamin[7] asks for tests of
53 this kernel-version, as some patches have been removed. A detailed list of
54 the patches and a some help for the migration can be found in Gentoo
55 developer John Mylchreest's blogpost[8] from last Monday after the first
56 bunch of user e-mails reached the Gentoo kernel team.
57
58 6. http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1
59 7. plasmaroo@g.o
60 8. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/07/18/18_jul_2005_gwn
61
62 Furthermore John asks those users who are using OpenSWAN with
63 gentoo-sources-2.4 and who are unable to move to a 2.6-kernel, to mail
64 kernel@g.o, so that they can make a decision about the future of
65 this patchset from the feedback they got. Last of all the kernel team
66 would like to mention that for those users who are using OpenAFS, that
67 this package is getting it's much needed attention, and that a kernel-2.6
68 compatible release should be available reasonably soon.
69
70 =========================
71 2. Heard in the community
72 =========================
73
74 gentoo-dev
75 ----------
76
77 upgrades and rc-scripts
78
79 Brian Harring[9] starts a nice discussion with the naive question: “Out of
80 curiousity, has any put any thought into some automated method or hook for
81 allowing restarting of rc-scripts on upgrade/re-emerge of a package?”
82
83 9. ferringb@g.o
84
85 * upgrades and rc-scripts [10]
86 10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29956
87
88
89 Bugzilla isn't just for bugs [reminder]
90
91 Maybe it's named badly, maybe the documentation isn't obvious enough, but
92 Gentoo Bugzilla is not only for bugs, but also for feature requests and
93 other things. Michael Cummings[11] even asks for reports of working
94 packages in ~ARCH so that it's easier for developers to see if there are
95 any issues. Of course this shouldn't be abused!
96
97 11. mcummings@g.o
98
99 * Bugzilla isn't just for bugs [reminder] [12]
100 12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29944
101
102
103 =======================
104 3. Gentoo International
105 =======================
106
107 Germany: National User-Meeting in August
108 ----------------------------------------
109
110 German forums moderator slick[13] currently organises a national
111 user-meeting[14] during the weekend August 13 and 14. Currently planned is
112 camping near to an inn in the lovely village Wissen located in the
113 countryside called Westerwald (between Cologne and Frankfurt/Main).
114 Potential attendees to this meeting are asked to register on a special
115 website[15] slick set up for this event.
116
117 13. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=18822
118 14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-352454.html
119 15. http://gentootreffen2005.deruwe.de/voranmeldung/
120
121 The idea behind is that there are many people in the quite large German
122 community who meet daily in IRC or the forums, probably met at one of the
123 local Gentoo User Meetings or on a fair somewhere in Germany. But there
124 was often too few time for a longer talk and getting known better to
125 each-other.
126
127 ======================
128 4. Gentoo in the press
129 ======================
130
131 Intel's virtualization tests with Gentoo as basis
132 -------------------------------------------------
133
134 In NewsForge's Ottawa Linux Symposium diary[16] was mentioned a talk by
135 Intel's architect Gordon McFadden about a virtualization test-setup. He
136 used Gentoo with a 2.6.11-kernel and XFS-filesystem as basis for a
137 User-Mode-Linux (UML) server. “His reasoning for using Gentoo was not
138 philosophical, but simply that he had not used it before and wanted to try
139 something new.”
140
141 16. http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/23/1227256.shtml?tid=2&tid=18
142
143 ==================
144 5. Tips and Tricks
145 ==================
146
147 Using vim as Man-page and Info browser
148 --------------------------------------
149
150 Man-pages and Info are a very good resource for additional information of
151 an application. Man-pages are usually shown with less and for Info you use
152 the info-browser. Especially the info-browser is somewhat uncommon to use
153 if you are not an emacs-user. In this week's Tips and Tricks we will show
154 you how to use vim as your Man-page and Info browser.
155
156 First we need to install an additional package for the Info browser in
157 vim. The Man-page browser is included by default.
158
159 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
160 | Code Listing 5.1: |
161 |Installing app-vim/info |
162 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
163 | |
164 |# emerge app-vim/info |
165 | |
166 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
167
168 After that we will use bash-functions for calling vim and create aliases
169 for man and info. Therefore edit your ~/.bashrc:
170
171 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
172 | Code Listing 5.2: |
173 |Creating man- and info-functions |
174 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
175 | |
176 |function viminfo () { vim -R -c "Info $1 $2" -c "bdelete 1"; } |
177 |alias info=viminfo |
178 |function vimman () { vim -R -c "Man $1 $2" -c "bdelete 1"; } |
179 |alias man=vimman |
180 | |
181 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
182
183 Using the aliases gives the advantage that you still can use the original
184 command by calling \man or \info.
185
186 Inside vim's Man-page browser you can use CTRL-] in order to call the
187 man-page for the word under the cursor, and CTRL-T to jump back. More
188 information are available with :help Man. There are more keys for the Info
189 browser. A short help is shown with H when you display an Info-file.
190
191 ===========================
192 6. Moves, adds, and changes
193 ===========================
194
195 Moves
196 -----
197
198 The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
199
200 * None this week
201
202 Adds
203 ----
204
205 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
206
207 * New developer: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (Gurligebis) (bugday)
208
209 Changes
210 -------
211
212 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
213 project:
214
215 * None this week
216
217 ==================
218 7. Gentoo security
219 ==================
220
221 Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
222 ---------------------------------------------
223
224 Several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird allow attacks ranging from
225 execution of script code with elevated privileges to information leak.
226
227 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[17]
228
229 17. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-17.xml
230
231 MediaWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
232 ---------------------------------------------
233
234 MediaWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow
235 arbitrary JavaScript code execution.
236
237 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18]
238
239 18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-18.xml
240
241 zlib: Buffer overflow
242 ---------------------
243
244 zlib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could potentially lead to
245 execution of arbitrary code.
246
247 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19]
248
249 19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-19.xml
250
251 Shorewall: Security policy bypass
252 ---------------------------------
253
254 A vulnerability in Shorewall allows clients authenticated by MAC address
255 filtering to bypass all other security rules.
256
257 For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20]
258
259 20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-20.xml
260
261 ===========
262 8. Bugzilla
263 ===========
264
265 Summary
266 -------
267
268 * Statistics
269 * Closed bug ranking
270 * New bug rankings
271
272 Statistics
273 ----------
274
275 The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[21]) to record and
276 track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
277 development team. Between 16 July 2005 and 23 July 2005, activity on the
278 site has resulted in:
279
280 21. http://bugs.gentoo.org
281
282 * 811 new bugs during this period
283 * 426 bugs closed or resolved during this period
284 * 29 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
285
286 Of the 8200 currently open bugs: 106 are labeled 'blocker', 193 are
287 labeled 'critical', and 553 are labeled 'major'.
288
289 Closed bug rankings
290 -------------------
291
292 The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
293 are:
294
295 * Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[22], with 24 closed bugs[23]
296 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[24], with 24 closed bugs[25]
297 * PPC Porters[26], with 20 closed bugs[27]
298 * Xavier Neys[28], with 17 closed bugs[29]
299 * AMD64 Porting Team[30], with 17 closed bugs[31]
300 * PHP Bugs[32], with 15 closed bugs[33]
301 * Gentoo Games[34], with 14 closed bugs[35]
302 * Perl Devs @ Gentoo[36], with 13 closed bugs[37]
303 22. gnome@g.o
304 23. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@g.o
305 24. base-system@g.o
306 25. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o
307 26. ppc@g.o
308 27. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=ppc@g.o
309 28. neysx@g.o
310 29. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@g.o
311 30. amd64@g.o
312 31. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o
313 32. php-bugs@g.o
314 33. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=php-bugs@g.o
315 34. games@g.o
316 35. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o
317 36. perl@g.o
318 37. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=perl@g.o
319
320
321 New bug rankings
322 ----------------
323
324 The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
325 this period are:
326
327 * Default Assignee for New Packages[38], with 190 new bugs[39]
328 * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[40], with 44 new bugs[41]
329 * Gentoo Sound Team[42], with 18 new bugs[43]
330 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[44], with 16 new bugs[45]
331 * Java team[46], with 13 new bugs[47]
332 * Colin Morey[48], with 10 new bugs[49]
333 * Perl Devs @ Gentoo[50], with 9 new bugs[51]
334 * Mozilla Gentoo Team[52], with 9 new bugs[53]
335 38. maintainer-wanted@g.o
336 39. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted@g.o
337 40. maintainer-needed@g.o
338 41. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o
339 42. sound@g.o
340 43. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=sound@g.o
341 44. base-system@g.o
342 45. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=base-system@g.o
343 46. java@g.o
344 47. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=java@g.o
345 48. peitolm@g.o
346 49. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=peitolm@g.o
347 50. perl@g.o
348 51. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=perl@g.o
349 52. mozilla@g.o
350 53. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-07-16&chfieldto=2005-07-23&assigned_to=mozilla@g.o
351
352
353 ===============
354 9. GWN feedback
355 ===============
356
357 Please send us your feedback[54] and help make the GWN better.
358
359 54. gwn-feedback@g.o
360
361 ================================
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375
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377
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405
406 Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o> - Editor
407 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> - Author
408 Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o> - Author
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