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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070212-newsletter.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 12 February 2007.
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1. Gentoo News
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Time Zone update coming
-----------------------
The United States passed a bill to extend Daylight Savings Time. Due to this
change, some users need to ensure they have the new time zone information to
keep their computer's clocks accurate. For our users in the United States,
please make sure you have updated to at least version 2006p of
sys-libs/timezone-data on or before 11 March.
Testing for media-libs/freetype-2.3.1
-------------------------------------
On Thursday, 8 February, versions 2.2.1 and 2.3.1 of the FreeType library
were unmasked in the tree for ~arch (testing) users. These versions were
masked for about eight months to make for an easier transition. Some older
software relied on the presence of some internal headers, functions, and
variables that are no longer exported to external programs in these two
versions. Although most of the packages in the tree should be now corrected,
with the main problems being older Qt and KDE versions that are no longer in
the tree, more testing is certainly helpful and appreciated.
Please file bugs if you find any software in either the stable or testing
branches of the tree that does not compile against these newer versions of
FreeType and assign the bug to Diego Pettenò[1].
1. flameeyes [at] gentoo
Problems with NSS/NSPR
----------------------
Some users have noticed troubles in some applications, such as
www-client/mozilla-firefox or mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird when accessing
encrypted resources, such as SSL-enabled pages. This is caused by an upgrade
problem affecting users of the testing branch, where dev-libs/nspr was
upgraded, then an application such as www-client/mozilla-firefox was
upgraded, without prior updating dev-libs/nss. This can be solved rather
easily, by emerging the packages in the correct order.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Code Listing 1.1 |
| Fixing NSS/NSPR with Mozilla Firefox |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # emerge --oneshot dev-libs/nspr dev-libs/nss www-client/mozilla-firefox |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Thanks from the KDE team
------------------------
Thanks to all of the people who offered their help to the KDE team. There
have been lots of responses, which the team has tried to follow up. If
anyone else wants to help out it is not too late! Please take a look at
http://dev.gentoo.org/~masterdriverz/kde-help.txt and drop into #gentoo-kde
on irc.freenode.net some time.
Adopt-a-Dev update
------------------
After some time of inactivity after the previous lead project lead retired
from Gentoo, the Adopt-a-dev[2] Project is back in operation under its new
leader, Dimitry Bradt[3]. Dimitry has contacted everyone who had emailed the
project during the inactivity and would like to thank all previous donors
for their trust and contribution to this project.
2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/
3. diox [at] gentoo
If you have something in your attic or closet that you want to get rid of
and you think that Gentoo developers could use it, or you wish to fill one
of the requests put up by developers, visit the project page[2] and/or mail
adopt-a-dev [at] gentoo
2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/
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2. Gentoo International
=======================
Denmark: Linuxforum 2007, Copenhagen
------------------------------------
The biggest Scandinavian open source conference, LinuxForum, will be
celebrating its tenth year. LinuxForum covers various topics about UNIX,
BSD, Open Source, and Linux. This year, Gentoo will have a booth at the
conference which will be manned by various developer from Denmark, as well
as a small group of developers from abroad. The event takes place on March 2
and March 3, with Gentoo being present on the 3rd.
Please stop by the booth with your questions, as Gentoo will have
representatives from the security team and the Release Coordinators for
Alpha, IA64, and MIPS among the group, along with the User Relations project
lead.
For more information, see http://www.linuxforum.dk/.
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3. Gentoo developer moves
=========================
Moves
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* none this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* none this week
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
* none this week
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4. Gentoo Security
==================
Gentoo Security is on hiatus this week due to no GLSA being released.
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5. Gentoo package moves
=======================
This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree
and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be
removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations,
including the Treecleaners[4] and various developers. Most packages which
are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care
and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners
Removals:
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Package: Removal date: Contact:
app-emacs/gnuplot-mode 05 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
dev-ada/adabroker 05 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[6]
dev-games/cel-cvs 06 Feb 2007 Chris Gianelloni[7]
dev-games/crystalspace-cvs 06 Feb 2007 Chris Gianelloni[7]
app-i18n/jmode 06 Feb 2007 Diego Pettenò[1]
dev-lisp/cl-arnesi 08 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
dev-lisp/cl-yaclml 08 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
dev-lisp/cl-icu 08 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
dev-lisp/cl-fiveam 08 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
dev-lisp/cl-ucw 08 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
dev-lisp/cl-rfc2109 08 Feb 2007 Christian Faulhammer[5]
sys-fs/submount 08 Feb 2007 Daniel Drake[8]
games-server/gta3mta 08 Feb 2007 Chris Gianelloni[7]
games-strategy/freecraft-fcmp 09 Feb 2007 Chris Gianelloni[7]
app-portage/abeni 09 Feb 2007 Paul Varner[9]
x11-misc/gpasman 09 Feb 2007 Krzysiek Pawlik[10]
media-libs/openquicktime 10 Feb 2007 Diego Pettenò[1]
net-p2p/ww 10 Feb 2007 Raúl Porcel[11]
net-p2p/azureus-bin 10 Feb 2007 Petteri Räty[12]
app-laptop/macosd 11 Feb 2007 Markus Rothe[13]
1. flameeyes [at] gentoo
5. opfer [at] gentoo
6. george [at] gentoo
7. wolf31o2 [at] gentoo
8. dsd [at] gentoo
9. fuzzyray [at] gentoo
10. nelchael [at] gentoo
11. armin76 [at] gentoo
12. betelgeuse [at] gentoo
13. corsair [at] gentoo
Additions:
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Package: Addition date: Contact:
dev-ada/glade[14] 05 Feb 2007 George Shapovalov[6]
media-libs/libafterimage[15] 05 Feb 2007 Sebastien Fabbro[16]
dev-perl/Return-Value[17] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-Send[19] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MIME-Encodings[20] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MessageID[21] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MIME-ContentType[22] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MIME[23] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MIME-Modifier[24] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper[25] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-Date[26] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-Simple-Creator[27] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-MIME-Creator[28] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-perl/Email-Reply[29] 05 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
sys-block/fwdl[30] 06 Feb 2007 Robin H. Johnson[31]
dev-perl/Astro-FITS-Header[32] 06 Feb 2007 Michael Cummings[18]
dev-ml/ocaml-ssl[33] 06 Feb 2007 Alexandre Buisse[34]
dev-ml/ocaml-expat[35] 06 Feb 2007 Alexandre Buisse[34]
games-strategy/coldwar[36] 06 Feb 2007 Chris Gianelloni[7]
games-arcade/blockrage[37] 06 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[38]
dev-python/pyfits[39] 07 Feb 2007 Sebastien Fabbro[16]
dev-util/ragel[40] 07 Feb 2007 Tom William Payne[41]
app-doc/lapack-docs[42] 07 Feb 2007 Sebastien Fabbro[16]
app-doc/blas-docs[43] 07 Feb 2007 Sebastien Fabbro[16]
dev-lang/cfortran[44] 07 Feb 2007 Sebastien Fabbro[16]
dev-perl/MLDBM-Sync[45] 07 Feb 2007 Christian Hartmann[46]
games-board/fruit[47] 07 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[38]
app-backup/keep[48] 08 Feb 2007 Timothy Redaelli[49]
games-arcade/amphetamine[50] 08 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[38]
dev-java/cos[51] 10 Feb 2007 Joshua Nichols[52]
x11-themes/gtk-engines-rezlooks[53] 11 Feb 2007 Saleem Abdulrasool[54]
dev-lang/mono-basic[55] 11 Feb 2007 Saleem Abdulrasool[54]
games-arcade/supertransball2[56] 11 Feb 2007 Alfredo Tupone[38]
xfce-extra/gsynaptics-mcs-plugin[57] 11 Feb 2007 Samuli Suominen[58]
6. george [at] gentoo
7. wolf31o2 [at] gentoo
14. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ada;name=glade
15. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-libs;name=libafterimage
16. bicatali [at] gentoo
17. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Return-Value
18. mcummings [at] gentoo
19. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-Send
20. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MIME-Encodings
21. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MessageID
22. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MIME-ContentType
23. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MIME
24. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MIME-Modifier
25. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper
26. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-Date
27. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-Simple-Creator
28. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-MIME-Creator
29. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Email-Reply
30. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-block;name=fwdl
31. robbat2 [at] gentoo
32. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=Astro-FITS-Header
33. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ml;name=ocaml-ssl
34. nattfodd [at] gentoo
35. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ml;name=ocaml-expat
36. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-strategy;name=coldwar
37. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-arcade;name=blockrage
38. tupone [at] gentoo
39. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-python;name=pyfits
40. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-util;name=ragel
41. twp [at] gentoo
42. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-doc;name=lapack-docs
43. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-doc;name=blas-docs
44. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-lang;name=cfortran
45. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=MLDBM-Sync
46. ian [at] gentoo
47. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-board;name=fruit
48. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-backup;name=keep
49. drizzt [at] gentoo
50. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-arcade;name=amphetamine
51. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=cos
52. nichoj [at] gentoo
53. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=x11-themes;name=gtk-engines-rezlooks
54. compnerd [at] gentoo
55. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-lang;name=mono-basic
56. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-arcade;name=supertransball2
57. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=gsynaptics-mcs-plugin
58. drac [at] gentoo
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6. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[59]) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development
team. Between 04 February 2007 and 11 February 2007, activity on the site
has resulted in:
59. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 743 new bugs during this period
* 531 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 32 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
* 148 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this
period
* 148 bugs marked as duplicates during this period
Of the 10407 currently open bugs: 16 are labeled 'blocker', 111 are labeled
'critical', and 435 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* AMD64 Project[60], with 27 closed bugs[61]
* Java team[62], with 24 closed bugs[63]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[64], with 21 closed bugs[65]
* Gentoo Games[66], with 19 closed bugs[67]
* Gentoo KDE team[68], with 17 closed bugs[69]
* GNU Emacs Herd[70], with 15 closed bugs[71]
* media-video herd[72], with 14 closed bugs[73]
* Gentoo Sound Team[74], with 13 closed bugs[75]
60. amd64 [at] gentoo
61. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64 [at] gentoo
62. java [at] gentoo
63. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java [at] gentoo
64. base-system [at] gentoo
65. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system [at] gentoo
66. games [at] gentoo
67. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games [at] gentoo
68. kde [at] gentoo
69. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde [at] gentoo
70. emacs [at] gentoo
71. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=emacs [at] gentoo
72. media-video [at] gentoo
73. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=media-video [at] gentoo
74. sound [at] gentoo
75. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound [at] gentoo
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Default Assignee for New Packages[76], with 22 new bugs[77]
* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[78], with 11 new
bugs[79]
* Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[80], with 10 new bugs[81]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[82], with 7 new bugs[83]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[84], with 7 new bugs[85]
* Gentoo Sound Team[74], with 6 new bugs[86]
* Gentoo net-im Herd[87], with 5 new bugs[88]
* Portage team[89], with 5 new bugs[90]
74. sound [at] gentoo
76. maintainer-wanted [at] gentoo
77. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted [at] gentoo
78. kernel [at] gentoo
79. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=kernel [at] gentoo
80. maintainer-needed [at] gentoo
81. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=maintainer-needed [at] gentoo
82. x11 [at] gentoo
83. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=x11 [at] gentoo
84. gnome [at] gentoo
85. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=gnome [at] gentoo
86. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=sound [at] gentoo
87. net-im [at] gentoo
88. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=net-im [at] gentoo
89. dev-portage [at] gentoo
90. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-02-04&chfieldto=2007-02-11&assigned_to=dev-portage [at] gentoo
===============
7. GWN feedback
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feedback on an article that we have posted, or just have an idea or article
that you would like to submit to the GWN, please send us your feedback[91]
and help make the GWN better.
91. gwn-feedback [at] gentoo
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Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2 [at] gentoo> - Editor
Rajiv Aaron Manglani <rajiv [at] gentoo> - Author
Diego Pettenò <flameeyes [at] gentoo> - Author
Dimitry Bradt <diox [at] gentoo> - Author
Charlie Shepherd <masterdriverz [at] gentoo> - Author
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