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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gentoo Weekly Newsletter http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20070319-newsletter.xml This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 19 March 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ============== 1. Gentoo News ============== Dell run a Linux Survey ----------------------- On March 13th, Dell opened a survey for Linux users to gather information about what users use Linux for to help them to prioritize their resources towards supporting Linux on their computers. The survey can be found online[1] and the GWN team urges you to specify Gentoo as the distribution to prioritize on! 1. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/linux Important changes within the Java Project ----------------------------------------- A number of significant changes have happened within Gentoo's Java team. First, Petteri Räty[2] was elected as the new Java Team Lead, taking over from Josh Nichols[3]. The GWN staff would like to congratulate Petteri on his new position, and give our thanks to Josh, who has done an excellent job managing the Java Team for the past year. Josh will be remaining as the Secondary Lead of the project and team. 2. betelgeuse [at] gentoo 3. nichoj [at] gentoo The Java team have also announced some upcoming changes to the Java Project's overlays. The changes will happen at 1200UTC on March the 24th, 2007. Generation 1, stale and unmaintained packages will be moved to the "junkyard" - not to be used as an overlay. Maintained packages which are not needed in the main tree will be moved into java-overlay, which will be made readily available to users. Other packages, for example those which are being developed on, will be moved into a java-experimental overlay. To use the new overlay, layman users will need to run a few commands after the changes have happened, commands are as follows: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 1.1 | | Changes for layman users | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # layman -d java-experimental | | # layman -d java-migration-packages | | # layman -a java-overlay | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x to be removed ----------------------------------- As the Mozilla Firefox 2.0 series is now stable on all architectures, the Mozilla team has announced that the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 series will be removed from the tree. It will be masked on April 1st 2007, and removed from the tree two weeks after masking, on the 15th of April, 2007. ======================== 2. Developer of the week ======================== "/welp hugs everybody" -Peter Weller, aka welp ---------------------------------------------- Figure 2.1: Peter Weller, aka welp http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20070319_welp.jpg This week's developer of the week is 16 year old Peter Weller, known as welp. He was born in Rhode Island, US, but at the age of 4 moved with his parents to the UK. He lives in Ipswich, UK with his parents and younger brother - an avid WOW player. Peter has a pet budgie (parakeet) named Saffy and also has ducks and chickens. He has a half brother who lives in France and a half sister who lives in the US. Peter is still in high school, but already knows that he wants a break from education and plans on traveling after school. He is interested in visiting the US, to include his birthplace of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Oregon. Down the line he considers a career as an ethical hacking consultant. Peter likes to spend most of his free time on IRC but has a variety of other interests. His favorite sports are skiing and sailing; he's been racing in regattas for over three years now. He loves books by Tom Sharpe and says that readers tend to find his work either extremely offensive or outrageously funny. And a lesser known fact about Peter is that he plays the didgeridoo, an Australian wind instrument. Peter was first introduced to Linux (Fedora Core 4) during an web design internship about 21 months ago. He found that though FC4 worked, he really wasn't learning HOW it worked. He loves Gentoo because he has to know how it works for it to work. He admits that if he doesn't know the ins and outs of something, he tends not to like it. Peter decided that he wanted to be a documentation developer for AMD64 so set out to learn GuideXML. The AMD64 team took advantage of Peter quickly, roping him into architecture testing as well. Peter credits several people for mentoring him, to include blubb and jokey. He currently works with AMD64, Sunrise, Bugday, Gentoo/FreeBSD, net-IRC, Xfce, www-servers, and the GWN. As for welp's personal computers, he has a x86 laptop that dual boots Gentoo Linux and Gentoo/FBSD, a x86 desktop running Gentoo/FBSD, an AMD64 running Gentoo Linux, and a Gentoo vserver in Dusseldorf. Welp's preferred applications are Xfce, a terminal, an SSH session to his vserver to connect to IRC, followed up by gajim, firefox, and claws-mail. ======================= 3. Gentoo International ======================= Czech Gentoo Metting -------------------- A visit to Prague by Wernfried Haas[4] gave a nice reason for getting together. Following a mail[5] by the resident developer Jan Kundrát[6] to the Czech mailing list, a couple of users showed up too. In the old tradition of a tea-signing, the GnuPG keys were signed over a typical Czech tea, also known as beer, a typical Czech food was served (more or less, since the only place with free tables was an Italian restaurant), and many current and former Gentoo developers were bashed by the attendants. 4. amne [at] gentoo 5. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user.czech-slovak/704 6. jkt [at] gentoo While this nice evening was the first real life meeting of Gentoo developers in Prague ever, there hopefully will be another one in not so distant future as our beloved Christel Dahlskjaer[7] is planning her visit to Prague. Rumors say she is willing to marry a goat here, but the GWN team couldn't get an official manifest before the issue went to press. 7. christel [at] gentoo ================== 4. Tips and Tricks ================== Spice up your MOTD ------------------ MOTD stands for "Message Of The Day". On most systems the file /etc/motd serves to output messages when someone logs in to the system. In this installment of Tips and Tricks we learn how use fortune and cowsay to create a fancy MOTD. First we need to install two packages: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.1 | | Installing cowsay and fortune | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # emerge fortune-mod cowsay | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Next we should choose a character from the following choices: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.2 | | Choosing your character | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # ls /usr/share/cowsay-3.03/cows/ | | # cowsay -f ren "foo" | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Finally, we update /etc/motd: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.3 | | Updating /etc/motd | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # fortune | cowsay -f ren > /etc/motd | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ You can generate a new motd daily by creating the following file in /etc/cron.daily: +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Code Listing 4.4 | | Setting up the cron job | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # echo '#!/bin/sh' >> /etc/cron.daily/motd | | # echo '/usr/bin/fortune | /usr/bin/cowsay -f ren > /etc/motd' >> /etc/cron.daily/motd | | # chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/motd | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you want to spice up your motd even more, read the forums thread[8] which inspired this week's Tips and Tricks. 8. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-97905.html ========================= 5. Gentoo developer moves ========================= Moves ----- The following developers recently left the Gentoo project: * Alexandre Buisse (nattfodd) 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 ======================= 6. 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[9] 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. 9. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners Removals: --------- Package: Removal date: Contact: net-p2p/mnet 13 Mar 2007 Raúl Porcel[10] games-fps/quake1 14 Mar 2007 Michael Sterrett[11] games-fps/ttyquake 14 Mar 2007 Michael Sterrett[11] app-portage/portage-prefpane 15 Mar 2007 Michael Hanselmann[12] net-wireless/ipw2100 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] net-wireless/ipw2200 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] net-www/mod_injection 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] net-www/mod_bwshare 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] net-www/mod_random 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] net-www/mod_encoding 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] www-apache/mod_depends 17 Mar 2007 Christian Heim[13] games-rpg/planeshift 17 Mar 2007 Alfredo Tupone[14] kde-base/kde-env 17 Mar 2007 Carsten Lohrke[15] net-im/ohphone 17 Mar 2007 Ryan Hill[16] dev-php4/PEAR-XML_CSSML 18 Mar 2007 Luca Longinotti[17] dev-php4/PEAR-XML_XPath 18 Mar 2007 Luca Longinotti[17] net-irc/cyclone 18 Mar 2007 Raúl Porcel[10] 10. armin76 [at] gentoo 11. mr_bones_ [at] gentoo 12. hansmi [at] gentoo 13. phreak [at] gentoo 14. tupone [at] gentoo 15. carlo [at] gentoo 16. dirtyepic [at] gentoo 17. chtekk [at] gentoo Additions: ---------- Package: Addition date: Contact: dev-ruby/adhearsion[18] 13 Mar 2007 Christian Marie[19] x11-plugins/wmcpu[20] 14 Mar 2007 Michele Noberasco[21] media-plugins/audacious-g15-spectrum[22] 15 Mar 2007 Robert Buchholz[23] app-misc/g15macro[24] 15 Mar 2007 Robert Buchholz[23] app-misc/g15message[25] 15 Mar 2007 Robert Buchholz[23] dev-ruby/ruby-debug-base[26] 16 Mar 2007 Christian Marie[19] dev-ruby/ruby-debug[27] 16 Mar 2007 Christian Marie[19] media-sound/pymp[28] 16 Mar 2007 Samuli Suominen[29] net-p2p/deluge[30] 16 Mar 2007 Raúl Porcel[10] app-laptop/macbook-backlight[31] 16 Mar 2007 Cédric Krier[32] dev-java/javahelp[33] 16 Mar 2007 Petteri Räty[2] dev-haskell/xhtml[34] 17 Mar 2007 Lennart Kolmodin[35] dev-haskell/arrows[36] 17 Mar 2007 Lennart Kolmodin[35] dev-haskell/cgi[37] 17 Mar 2007 Lennart Kolmodin[35] dev-haskell/time[38] 17 Mar 2007 Lennart Kolmodin[35] media-tv/dvbstreamer[39] 17 Mar 2007 Matthias Schwarzott[40] xfce-extra/xfce4-places[41] 17 Mar 2007 Samuli Suominen[29] dev-ruby/facter[42] 17 Mar 2007 Masatomo Nakano[43] app-admin/puppet[44] 17 Mar 2007 Masatomo Nakano[43] media-libs/libnut[45] 18 Mar 2007 Steve Dibb[46] dev-cpp/tclap[47] 18 Mar 2007 René Nussbaumer[48] 2. betelgeuse [at] gentoo 10. armin76 [at] gentoo 18. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=adhearsion 19. pingu [at] gentoo 20. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=x11-plugins;name=wmcpu 21. s4t4n [at] gentoo 22. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-plugins;name=audacious-g15-spectrum 23. rbu [at] gentoo 24. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-misc;name=g15macro 25. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-misc;name=g15message 26. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-debug-base 27. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=ruby-debug 28. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-sound;name=pymp 29. drac [at] gentoo 30. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-p2p;name=deluge 31. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-laptop;name=macbook-backlight 32. cedk [at] gentoo 33. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=javahelp 34. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-haskell;name=xhtml 35. kolmodin [at] gentoo 36. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-haskell;name=arrows 37. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-haskell;name=cgi 38. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-haskell;name=time 39. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-tv;name=dvbstreamer 40. zzam [at] gentoo 41. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=xfce4-places 42. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-ruby;name=facter 43. nakano [at] gentoo 44. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-admin;name=puppet 45. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=media-libs;name=libnut 46. beandog [at] gentoo 47. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-cpp;name=tclap 48. killerfox [at] gentoo Last Rites: ----------- Package: Removal date: Contact: app-text/estraier[49] 12 Apr 2007 Matsuu Takuto[50] dev-java/oscore-bin[51] 12 Apr 2007 William L. Thomson Jr.[52] dev-java/oscore[53] 12 Apr 2007 William L. Thomson Jr.[52] sci-electronics/modelsim[54] 14 Apr 2007 Denis Dupeyron[55] mail-mta/qmail[56] 15 Apr 2007 Michael Hanselmann[12] www-servers/ncsa-httpd[57] 17 Apr 2007 Raúl Porcel[10] net-im/aim-transport[58] 17 Apr 2007 Raúl Porcel[10] xfce-extra/xfcalendar[59] 18 Apr 2007 Samuli Suominen[29] xfce-base/xffm[60] 18 Apr 2007 Samuli Suominen[29] www-servers/plb[61] 18 Apr 2007 Raúl Porcel[10] 10. armin76 [at] gentoo 12. hansmi [at] gentoo 29. drac [at] gentoo 49. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-text;name=estraier 50. matsuux [at] gentoo 51. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=oscore-bin 52. wltjr [at] gentoo 53. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=oscore 54. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sci-electronics;name=modelsim 55. calchan [at] gentoo 56. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=mail-mta;name=qmail 57. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-servers;name=ncsa-httpd 58. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-im;name=aim-transport 59. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-extra;name=xfcalendar 60. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=xfce-base;name=xffm 61. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-servers;name=plb =========== 7. Bugzilla =========== Summary ------- * Statistics * Closed bug ranking * New bug rankings Statistics ---------- The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[62]) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 11 March 2007 and 18 March 2007, activity on the site has resulted in: 62. http://bugs.gentoo.org * 619 new bugs during this period * 443 bugs closed or resolved during this period * 27 previously closed bugs were reopened this period * 152 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this period * 116 bugs marked as duplicates during this period Of the 10239 currently open bugs: 17 are labeled 'blocker', 107 are labeled 'critical', and 412 are labeled 'major'. Closed bug rankings ------------------- The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are: * Gentoo Games[63], with 49 closed bugs[64] * Java team[65], with 21 closed bugs[66] * Gentoo KDE team[67], with 15 closed bugs[68] * Camille Huot[69], with 14 closed bugs[70] * Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[71], with 12 closed bugs[72] * Gentoo Security[73], with 11 closed bugs[74] * Gentoo Sound Team[75], with 9 closed bugs[76] * PMS/EAPI Bugs[77], with 9 closed bugs[78] 63. games [at] gentoo 64. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games [at] gentoo 65. java [at] gentoo 66. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java [at] gentoo 67. kde [at] gentoo 68. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde [at] gentoo 69. cam [at] gentoo 70. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=cam [at] gentoo 71. base-system [at] gentoo 72. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system [at] gentoo 73. security [at] gentoo 74. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security [at] gentoo 75. sound [at] gentoo 76. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=sound [at] gentoo 77. pms-bugs [at] gentoo 78. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=pms-bugs [at] gentoo New bug rankings ---------------- The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are: * TeX herd[79], with 93 new bugs[80] * Default Assignee for New Packages[81], with 34 new bugs[82] * Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages[83], with 28 new bugs[84] * mips team[85], with 20 new bugs[86] * Gentoo SGML herd[87], with 19 new bugs[88] * AMD64 Project[89], with 16 new bugs[90] * Colin Morey[91], with 15 new bugs[92] * PPC Porters[93], with 10 new bugs[94] 79. tex [at] gentoo 80. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=tex [at] gentoo 81. maintainer-wanted [at] gentoo 82. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=maintainer-wanted [at] gentoo 83. maintainer-needed [at] gentoo 84. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=maintainer-needed [at] gentoo 85. mips [at] gentoo 86. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=mips [at] gentoo 87. sgml [at] gentoo 88. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=sgml [at] gentoo 89. amd64 [at] gentoo 90. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=amd64 [at] gentoo 91. peitolm [at] gentoo 92. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=peitolm [at] gentoo 93. ppc [at] gentoo 94. http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2007-03-11&chfieldto=2007-03-18&assigned_to=ppc [at] gentoo =============== 8. GWN feedback =============== The GWN is staffed by volunteers and members of the community who submit ideas and articles. If you are interested in writing for the GWN, have 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[95] and help make the GWN better. 95. gwn-feedback [at] gentoo =============================== 9. GWN subscription information =============================== To subscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank e-mail to gentoo-gwn+subscribe [at] gentoo To unsubscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank e-mail to gentoo-gwn+unsubscribe [at] gentoo from the e-mail address you are subscribed under. =================== 10. Other languages =================== The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages: * Chinese (Simplified)[96] * Dutch[97] * English[98] * German[99] * Greek[100] * French[101] * Korean[102] * Japanese[103] * Italian[104] * Polish[105] * Portuguese (Brazil)[106] * Portuguese (Portugal)[107] * Russian[108] * Slovak[109] * Spanish[110] * Turkish[111] 96. http://www.gentoo.org/news/zh_cn/gwn/gwn.xml 97. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml 98. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml 99. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml 100. http://www.gentoo.org/news/el/gwn/gwn.xml 101. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml 102. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ko/gwn/gwn.xml 103. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml 104. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml 105. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml 106. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml 107. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml 108. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml 109. http://www.gentoo.org/news/sk/gwn/gwn.xml 110. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml 111. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2 [at] gentoo> - Editor Peter Weller <welp [at] gentoo> - Author William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr [at] gentoo> - Author Petteri Räty <betelgeuse [at] gentoo> - Author Andrey Falko <andrey [at] afalko> - Author Raúl Porcel <armin76 [at] gentoo> - Author Wernfried Haas <amne [at] gentoo> - Author Chrissy Fullam <musikc [at] hotmail> - Author Jan Kundrát <jkt [at] gentoo> - Author -- gentoo-gwn [at] gentoo mailing list
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