Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 1 January 2007Welcome to the first edition of the GWN for 2007! This marks the beginning of the 6th year of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, which was started by Kurt Lieber on 23 Dec 2002 with contributions from the community. Since that time, there have been more than 200 issues of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. The GWN staff looks forward to another year of providing the community with information about Gentoo. Saturday the 6th of January is the date for the first Bugday event in 2007 to take place. As usual, join #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net and hang out there and help out making Gentoo and even better distribution. There are a lot of new members in the Bugday team that will be at your service to help you with different ways to resolve bugs. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Alexander Færøy by either email or on IRC. Peter Weller and Bryan Østergaard will be available to help on Bugday. The Bugday team wishes everyone a happy new year and hopes you'll participate in the event. Russia: Gentoo meeting, Moscow On Saturday, 23 December 2006, there was a meeting of Russian members of the Gentoo community. Currently, the Russian Gentoo community is split into two independent groups: the official Russian translators team and the team that supports the Russian Gentoo forums and other Gentoo community resources. Both of these teams put effort into translation of the documentation and GWN. It's clear that consolidation of efforts is beneficial for both of the teams and for the users. This decision was made between Peter Volkov from the Russian translation team and Anton Chaplygin and Anton Senkovsky from the forums team. Another part of meeting was devoted to playing with exciting beryl desktop effects, solving logical problems, beer and fun. Photos are available on gentoo.ru. 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:
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 24 December 2006 and 31 December 2006, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10703 currently open bugs: 27 are labeled 'blocker', 92 are labeled 'critical', and 428 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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