Gentoo News
Council News
Concerning the handling of bash-completion and of phase functions in eclasses in general the council decided no actions. The former should be handled by the shell-tools team, the latter needs more discussion on the mailing lists.
Then we had two hot topics. The first was the games team policy; the council clarified that the games team has in no way authority over game ebuilds maintained by other developers. In addition, the games team should elect a lead in the near future. If it doesn’t it will be considered dysfunctional. Tim Harder (radhermit) acts as interim lead and organizes the elections.
Next, rumors about the handling of dynamic dependencies in Portage had sparked quite a stir. The council asks the Portage team basically not to remove dynamic dependency handling before they haven’t worked out and presented a good plan how Gentoo would work without them. Portage tree policies and the
handling of eclasses and virtuals in particular need to be clarified.
Finally the list of planned features for EAPI 6 was amended by two items, namely additional options for configure and a non-runtime switchable ||= () or-dependency.
Gentoo Developer Moves
Summary
Gentoo is made up of 242 active developers, of which 43 are currently away.
Gentoo has recruited a total of 803 developers since its inception.
Changes
- Ian Stakenvicius (axs) joined the multilib project
- Michał Górny (mgorny) joined the QA team
- Kristian Fiskerstrand (k_f) joined the Security team
- Richard Freeman (rich0) joined the systemd team
- Pavlos Ratis (dastergon) joined the Gentoo Infrastructure team
- Patrice Clement (monsieur) and Ian Stakenvicius (axs) joined the perl team
- Chris Reffett (creffett) joined the Wiki team
- Pavlos Ratis (dastergon) left the KDE project
- Dirkjan Ochtman (djc) left the ComRel project
Portage
This section summarizes the current state of the portage tree.
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Architectures, 45
Categories, 162
Packages, 17653
Ebuilds, 37397
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Architecture, Stable, Testing, Total, % of Packages
alpha, 3661, 574, 4235, 23.99%
amd64, 10895, 6263, 17158, 97.20%
amd64-fbsd, 0, 1573, 1573, 8.91%
arm, 2692, 1755, 4447, 25.19%
arm64, 570, 32, 602, 3.41%
hppa, 3073, 496, 3569, 20.22%
ia64, 3196, 626, 3822, 21.65%
m68k, 614, 98, 712, 4.03%
mips, 0, 2410, 2410, 13.65%
ppc, 6841, 2475, 9316, 52.77%
ppc64, 4332, 971, 5303, 30.04%
s390, 1464, 349, 1813, 10.27%
sh, 1650, 427, 2077, 11.77%
sparc, 4135, 922, 5057, 28.65%
sparc-fbsd, 0, 317, 317, 1.80%
x86, 11572, 5297, 16869, 95.56%
x86-fbsd, 0, 3241, 3241, 18.36%
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Security
The following GLSAs have been released by the Security Team
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GLSA, Package, Description, Bug
201408-19, app-office/openoffice-bin (and 3 more), OpenOffice\, LibreOffice: Multiple vulnerabilities, 283370
201408-18, net-analyzer/nrpe, NRPE: Multiple Vulnerabilities, 397603
201408-17, app-emulation/qemu, QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities, 486352
201408-16, www-client/chromium, Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities, 504328
201408-15, dev-db/postgresql-server, PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities, 456080
201408-14, net-misc/stunnel, stunnel: Information disclosure, 503506
201408-13, dev-python/jinja, Jinja2: Multiple vulnerabilities, 497690
201408-12, www-servers/apache, Apache HTTP Server: Multiple vulnerabilities, 504990
201408-11, dev-lang/php, PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities, 459904
201408-10, dev-libs/libgcrypt, Libgcrypt: Side-channel attack, 519396
201408-09, dev-libs/libtasn1, GNU Libtasn1: Multiple vulnerabilities, 511536
201408-08, sys-apps/file, file: Denial of Service, 505534
201408-07, media-libs/libmodplug, ModPlug XMMS Plugin: Multiple vulnerabilities, 480388
201408-06, media-libs/libpng, libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities, 503014
201408-05, www-plugins/adobe-flash, Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities, 519790
201408-04, dev-util/catfish, Catfish: Multiple Vulnerabilities, 502536
201408-03, net-libs/libssh, LibSSH: Information disclosure, 503504
201408-02, media-libs/freetype, FreeType: Arbitrary code execution, 504088
201408-01, dev-php/ZendFramework, Zend Framework: SQL injection, 369139
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Package Removals/Additions
Removals
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Package, Developer, Date
virtual/perl-Class-ISA, dilfridge, 02 Aug 2014
virtual/perl-Filter, dilfridge, 02 Aug 2014
dev-vcs/gitosis, robbat2, 04 Aug 2014
dev-vcs/gitosis-gentoo, robbat2, 04 Aug 2014
virtual/python-argparse, mgorny, 11 Aug 2014
virtual/python-unittest2, mgorny, 11 Aug 2014
app-emacs/sawfish, ulm, 19 Aug 2014
virtual/ruby-test-unit, graaff, 20 Aug 2014
games-action/d2x, mr_bones_, 25 Aug 2014
games-arcade/koules, mr_bones_, 25 Aug 2014
dev-lang/libcilkrts, ottxor, 26 Aug 2014
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Additions
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Package, Developer, Date
dev-python/oslotest, prometheanfire, 01 Aug 2014
dev-db/tokumx, chainsaw, 01 Aug 2014
sys-boot/gummiboot, mgorny, 02 Aug 2014
app-admin/supernova, alunduil, 03 Aug 2014
dev-db/mysql-cluster, robbat2, 03 Aug 2014
net-libs/txtorcon, mrueg, 04 Aug 2014
dev-ruby/prawn-table, mrueg, 06 Aug 2014
sys-apps/cv, zx2c4, 06 Aug 2014
media-libs/openctm, amynka, 07 Aug 2014
sci-libs/levmar, amynka, 07 Aug 2014
media-gfx/printrun, amynka, 07 Aug 2014
dev-python/alabaster, idella4, 10 Aug 2014
dev-haskell/regex-pcre, slyfox, 11 Aug 2014
dev-python/gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin, vapier, 12 Aug 2014
dev-python/astropy-helpers, jlec, 12 Aug 2014
dev-perl/Math-ModInt, chainsaw, 13 Aug 2014
dev-ruby/classifier-reborn, mrueg, 13 Aug 2014
media-gfx/meshlab, amynka, 14 Aug 2014
dev-libs/librevenge, scarabeus, 15 Aug 2014
www-apps/jekyll-coffeescript, mrueg, 15 Aug 2014
www-apps/jekyll-gist, mrueg, 15 Aug 2014
www-apps/jekyll-paginate, mrueg, 15 Aug 2014
www-apps/jekyll-watch, mrueg, 15 Aug 2014
sec-policy/selinux-salt, swift, 15 Aug 2014
www-apps/jekyll-sass-converter, mrueg, 15 Aug 2014
dev-ruby/rouge, mrueg, 15 Aug 2014
dev-ruby/ruby-beautify, graaff, 16 Aug 2014
sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware, idl0r, 17 Aug 2014
media-libs/libmpris2client, ssuominen, 20 Aug 2014
xfce-extra/xfdashboard, ssuominen, 20 Aug 2014
www-client/opera-developer, jer, 20 Aug 2014
dev-libs/openspecfun, patrick, 21 Aug 2014
dev-libs/marisa, dlan, 22 Aug 2014
media-sound/dcaenc, beandog, 22 Aug 2014
sci-mathematics/geogebra, amynka, 23 Aug 2014
dev-python/crumbs, alunduil, 25 Aug 2014
media-gfx/kxstitch, kensington, 26 Aug 2014
media-gfx/symboleditor, kensington, 26 Aug 2014
dev-perl/Sort-Key, chainsaw, 26 Aug 2014
dev-perl/Sort-Key-IPv4, chainsaw, 26 Aug 2014
sci-visualization/yt, xarthisius, 26 Aug 2014
dev-ruby/globalid, graaff, 27 Aug 2014
dev-python/certifi, idella4, 27 Aug 2014
www-apps/jekyll-sitemap, mrueg, 27 Aug 2014
sys-apps/tuned, dlan, 29 Aug 2014
app-portage/g-sorcery, jauhien, 29 Aug 2014
app-portage/gs-elpa, jauhien, 29 Aug 2014
app-portage/gs-pypi, jauhien, 29 Aug 2014
app-admin/eselect-rust, jauhien, 29 Aug 2014
sys-block/raid-check, chutzpah, 29 Aug 2014
dev-python/python3-openid, maksbotan, 30 Aug 2014
dev-python/python-social-auth, maksbotan, 30 Aug 2014
dev-python/websocket-client, alunduil, 31 Aug 2014
dev-ruby/ethon, graaff, 31 Aug 2014
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Bugzilla
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team.
Activity
The following tables and charts summarize the activity on Bugzilla between 01 August 2014 and 31 August 2014. Not fixed means bugs that were resolved as NEEDINFO, WONTFIX, CANTFIX, INVALID or UPSTREAM.
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Bug Activity, Number
New, 1575
Closed, 981
Not fixed, 187
Duplicates, 145
Total, 6023
Blocker, 5
Critical, 19
Major, 66
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Closed bug ranking
The following table outlines the teams and developers with the most bugs resolved during this period
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Rank, Team/Developer, Bug Count
1, Gentoo Security, 102
2, Gentoo’s Team for Core System packages, 39
3, Gentoo KDE team, 37
4, Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages, 32
5, Julian Ospald (hasufell), 26
6, Gentoo Games, 25
7, Portage team, 25
8, Netmon Herd, 24
9, Python Gentoo Team, 23
10, Others, 647
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Assigned bug ranking
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most bugs during this period are as follows.
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Rank, Team/Developer, Bug Count
1, Gentoo Linux bug wranglers, 160
2, Gentoo Security, 61
3, Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages, 60
4, Gentoo KDE team, 45
5, Gentoo’s Team for Core System packages, 45
6, Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, 37
7, Gentoo Games, 28
8, Portage team, 28
9, Python Gentoo Team, 26
10, Others, 1084
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