Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 25 December 2006

1.  Gentoo News

Happy ${HOLIDAYS} from Gentoo

The 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.

2.  Gentoo developer moves

Moves

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:

• Markus Ullmann (jokey) Elected as Overlays lead

3.  Gentoo Security

ClamAV: Denial of Service

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

4.  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 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.

Additions:

Removals:

Last Rites:

5.  Bugzilla

Summary

• Statistics
• Closed bug ranking
• New bug rankings

Statistics

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:

• 643 new bugs during this period
• 342 bugs closed or resolved during this period
• 19 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
• 154 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this period
• 173 bugs marked as duplicates during this period

Of the 10687 currently open bugs: 26 are labeled 'blocker', 99 are labeled 'critical', and 427 are labeled 'major'.

Closed bug rankings

The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:

• Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, with 14 closed bugs
• AMD64 Project, with 14 closed bugs
• Gentoo's Team for Core System packages, with 13 closed bugs
• dotnet AT gentoo DOT org, with 11 closed bugs
• Gentoo Security, with 10 closed bugs
• Mozilla Gentoo Team, with 10 closed bugs
• Java team, with 10 closed bugs
• Gentoo Games, with 10 closed bugs

New bug rankings

The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:

• Default Assignee for New Packages, with 22 new bugs
• AMD64 Project, with 13 new bugs
• Java team, with 8 new bugs
• Default Assignee for Orphaned Packages, with 6 new bugs
• Gentoo X-windows packagers, with 5 new bugs
• Gentoo Games, with 5 new bugs
• Gentoo net-im Herd, with 4 new bugs
• Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team, with 4 new bugs

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