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From: Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o>
To: gentoo-gwn@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 29 May 2006
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 08:31:31
Message-Id: 20060529095241.bc032874.plate@gentoo.org
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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 29 May 2006.
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6
7 ==============
8 1. Gentoo news
9 ==============
10
11 Don't mix and match GCC 3.4 and 4.1 versions
12 --------------------------------------------
13
14 It has been discovered that even though GCC 3.4 and 4.1 share the same
15 libstdc++.so version, some slight changes require you to follow the GCC
16 Upgrading Guide[1]. Bug #134447[2] illustrates an example of what may
17 happen upon partial rebuilds (Qt in this case). Sorry for any
18 inconvenience that this error may have caused.
19
20 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
21 2. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134447
22
23 GnuPG update
24 ------------
25
26 gnupg-1.9.20 has been marked stable, allowing its added features[3]
27 GPG-AGENT (passphrase caching) and GPGSM (S/MIME support) to be made
28 available to all users of Gentoo Linux. As the GnuPG developers have
29 indicated[4] these features are ready for production use. Following their
30 recommendation, the gpg executable on your system is still the gnupg-1.4
31 version, as gnupg-1.4 and gnupg-1.9 are both installed at the same time
32 (in different slots). If you want to use the development version of gpg[5]
33 please enable USE=gpg2-experimental, then emerge gnupg-1.9 and the
34 executable /usr/bin/gpg2 will be installed. It will only be used if
35 explicitly called, and by applications that are gpg2-aware. Not all
36 applications look for gpg2 or understand its interfaces, which is why
37 gnupg-1.4 is also installed. As a result of the stabilization the
38 gpg-agent package is superseeded by gnupg-1.9.20. For information on how
39 to use gpg-agent see Gentoo GnuPG User guide[6].
40
41 3. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D132343
42 4. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2005q4/000209.html
43 5. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/index.html#gnupg2
44 6. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml
45
46
47
48
49 Tobias Klausmann, systems administrator for rsync5.de.gentoo.org, was kind
50 enough recently to completely rewrite the Gentoo rsync server guide[7]
51 with fixes both in the instructions and the code snippets. Gentoo
52 developer Jeffrey Forman and the infrastructure team want to thank him for
53 the hard work and appreciate making Gentoo's documentation just a little
54 bit more complete.
55
56 7. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml
57
58 ========================
59 2. Developer of the week
60 ========================
61
62 "A room full of strangers is a room full of potential friends" - Christel
63 Dahlskjaer (christel)
64 ---------------------
65
66 Figure 2.1: Christel Dahlskjaer aka Christel
67 http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20060529_christel.png
68
69 One of the more recent additions to the Gentoo development team, already
70 known by many from her function as Freenode staff, Christel Dahlskjaer was
71 originally pulled in to help the User Relations project. Since then she
72 has also infiltrated PR, Events, Gentoo/MIPS, Gentoo/Alpha, Developer
73 Relations and Release Engineering, and she is also Gentoo's administrative
74 contact during this year's Summer of Code contest. "User Relations exists
75 to act as a facilitator for the many user focused projects within Gentoo,"
76 she explains. "We are bridging the gap between users and developers by
77 improving the information flow, keeping users and prospective developers
78 informed about the development community. We also deal with complaints."
79 Although she originally came onboard to work on User Relations, she finds
80 much enjoyment in working on the other projects she is taking part in.
81
82 One of the few active women in the midst of primarily male Gentoo
83 developers, Christel is also a qualified nurse, and currently studies
84 towards a MSc in Forensic Psychology. To keep herself busy and out of
85 trouble, she keeps a number of computers around the house, including an
86 Alpha Server, a Sun Blade 1000, an O2 and "a terribly gorgeous babypink
87 iBook," all of which of course run Gentoo.
88
89 The question "KDE or Gnome?" has no relevance for a fluxbox user such as
90 Christel -- who lives in Exeter (England) and is "happily not married,
91 yet" -- and irssi is her favourite application, no surprise really, her
92 being a Irssi developer after all, and Senior Freenode Staff, but she
93 insists that "senior" does not necessarily mean "old."
94
95 =========================
96 3. Heard in the community
97 =========================
98
99 planet.gentoo.org
100 -----------------
101
102 Perl 5.8.8 is at your door
103
104 Perl 5.8.8 has been marked stable on most architectures during the last
105 week. Like after every Perl upgrade you have to run perl-cleaner to
106 rebuild all Perl modules and packages linked against the old libperl.
107
108 * Perl 5.8.8 is at your door[8]
109 8. http://www.datanode.net/?p=211
110
111
112 =======================
113 4. Gentoo international
114 =======================
115
116 Germany: Winners of the gentoo.de quiz announced
117 ------------------------------------------------
118
119 As reported[9], the German not-for-profit association "Friends of Gentoo
120 e.V." asked on their community-site gentoo.de "Are you Gentoo?" Now the
121 quiz is over, and the organizers now know that more than 500 participants
122 are Gentoo. The interest in this quiz was so impressive that there will be
123 another quiz in late-summer this year. If you have questions you'd like to
124 see included in that next quiz mail them to www@××××××.de.
125
126 9. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060508-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3
127
128 Congratulations to Benjamin Franzke, Chiara Sannitz and Meik Frischke who
129 won the T-shirt, mouse-pad and Gentoo stickers offered by the "Friends of
130 Gentoo".
131
132 ======================
133 5. Gentoo in the press
134 ======================
135
136 Newsforge (22 May 2006)
137 -----------------------
138
139 Author Robin Miller gives Gentoo an interesting supporting role in this
140 article[10] about the Debian developer conference DebConf6. Answering his
141 own question why Debian is important, he obviously finds that others get
142 more public visibility: "Novell and Red Hat have significant PR and ad
143 budgets and use them to make lots of noise in the trade press. Gentoo has
144 devoted followers who post pro-Gentoo messages in almost every online
145 discussion about GNU/Linux distributions." Small error: Miller thinks
146 Debian's social contract is unique, which goes to say that maybe Gentoo's
147 devoted followers are at least one pro-Gentoo message[11] short so far.
148
149 10. http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/05/22/1240231.shtml
150 11. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
151
152 =========================
153 6. Gentoo developer moves
154 =========================
155
156 Moves
157 -----
158
159 The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
160
161 * None this week
162
163 Adds
164 ----
165
166 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
167
168 * Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) - Forums
169
170 Changes
171 -------
172
173 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
174
175 * None this week
176
177 ===========
178 7. Bugzilla
179 ===========
180
181 Statistics
182 ----------
183
184 The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[12]) to record and
185 track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
186 development team. Between 21 May 2006 and 28 May 2006, activity on the
187 site has resulted in:
188
189 12. http://bugs.gentoo.org
190
191 * 668 new bugs during this period
192 * 401 bugs closed or resolved during this period
193 * 25 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
194
195 Of the 10054 currently open bugs: 56 are labeled 'blocker', 141 are
196 labeled 'critical', and 526 are labeled 'major'.
197
198 Closed bug rankings
199 -------------------
200
201 The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
202 are:
203
204 * Gentoo Games[13], with 26 closed bugs[14]
205 * Xavier Neys[15], with 22 closed bugs[16]
206 * Portage team[17], with 20 closed bugs[18]
207 * Robin Johnson[19], with 12 closed bugs[20]
208 * Gentoo Kerberos Maintainers[21], with 11 closed bugs[22]
209 * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[23], with 11 closed bugs[24]
210 * Gentoo Security[25], with 10 closed bugs[26]
211 * Roy Marples[27], with 9 closed bugs[28]
212 13. games@g.o
213 14.
214 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
215 15. neysx@g.o
216 16.
217 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
218 17. dev-portage@g.o
219 18.
220 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
221 19. robbat2@g.o
222 20.
223 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
224 21. kerberos@g.o
225 22.
226 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
227 23. base-system@g.o
228 24.
229 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
230 25. security@g.o
231 26.
232 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
233 27. uberlord@g.o
234 28.
235 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
236
237
238 New bug rankings
239 ----------------
240
241 The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
242 this period are:
243
244 * Default Assignee for New Packages[29], with 27 new bugs[30]
245 * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[31], with 11 new bugs[32]
246 * AMD64 Project[33], with 11 new bugs[34]
247 * Perl Devs @ Gentoo[35], with 10 new bugs[36]
248 * Gentoo X-windows packagers[37], with 8 new bugs[38]
249 * media-video herd[39], with 8 new bugs[40]
250 * Chris White[41], with 8 new bugs[42]
251 * Gentoo Sound Team[43], with 7 new bugs[44]
252 29. maintainer-wanted@g.o
253 30.
254 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
255 31. maintainer-needed@g.o
256 32.
257 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
258 33. amd64@g.o
259 34.
260 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
261 35. perl@g.o
262 36.
263 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
264 37. x11@g.o
265 38.
266 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=x11@g.o
267 39. media-video@g.o
268 40.
269 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
270 41. chriswhite@g.o
271 42.
272 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
273 43. sound@g.o
274 44.
275 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
276
277
278 ===============
279 8. GWN feedback
280 ===============
281
282 Please send us your feedback[45] and help make the GWN better.
283
284 45. gwn-feedback@g.o
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333 Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o> - Editor
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