Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 25 December 2006The GWN staff and all of Gentoo would like to wish everyone a pleasant holiday season. We hope that everyone stays safe and are back to rejoin us after the new year. The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
ClamAV is vulnerable to Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement pam_ldap: Authentication bypass vulnerability pam_ldap contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote user with a locked account to gain unauthorized system access. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement imlib2: Multiple vulnerabilities imlib2 contains several vulnerabilities that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Ruby: Denial of Service vulnerability The Ruby cgi.rb CGI library is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement 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 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.
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 17 December 2006 and 24 December 2006, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10687 currently open bugs: 26 are labeled 'blocker', 99 are labeled 'critical', and 427 are labeled 'major'. The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
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