Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 12 February 2007The United States passed a bill to extend Daylight Saving Time. Due to this change, some users need to ensure they have the new time zone information to keep their computer's clocks accurate. For our users in the United States, please make sure you have updated to at least version 2006p of sys-libs/timezone-data on or before 11 March. Testing for media-libs/freetype-2.3.1 On Thursday, 8 February, versions 2.2.1 and 2.3.1 of the FreeType library were unmasked in the tree for ~arch (testing) users. These versions were masked for about eight months to make for an easier transition. Some older software relied on the presence of some internal headers, functions, and variables that are no longer exported to external programs in these two versions. Although most of the packages in the tree should be now corrected, with the main problems being older Qt and KDE versions that are no longer in the tree, more testing is certainly helpful and appreciated. Please file bugs if you find any software in either the stable or testing branches of the tree that does not compile against these newer versions of FreeType and assign the bug to Diego Pettenò. Some users have noticed troubles in some applications, such as www-client/mozilla-firefox or mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird when accessing encrypted resources, such as SSL-enabled pages. This is caused by an upgrade problem affecting users of the testing branch, where dev-libs/nspr was upgraded, then an application such as www-client/mozilla-firefox was upgraded, without prior updating dev-libs/nss. This can be solved rather easily, by emerging the packages in the correct order.
Thanks to all of the people who offered their help to the KDE team. There have been lots of responses, which the team has tried to follow up. If anyone else wants to help out it is not too late! Please take a look at http://dev.gentoo.org/~masterdriverz/kde-help.txt and drop into #gentoo-kde on irc.freenode.net some time. After some time of inactivity after the previous lead project lead retired from Gentoo, the Adopt-a-dev Project is back in operation under its new leader, Dimitry Bradt. Dimitry has contacted everyone who had emailed the project during the inactivity and would like to thank all previous donors for their trust and contribution to this project. If you have something in your attic or closet that you want to get rid of and you think that Gentoo developers could use it, or you wish to fill one of the requests put up by developers, visit the project page and/or mail adopt-a-dev@gentoo.org. Denmark: Linuxforum 2007, Copenhagen The biggest Scandinavian open source conference, LinuxForum, will be celebrating its tenth year. LinuxForum covers various topics about UNIX, BSD, Open Source, and Linux. This year, Gentoo will have a booth at the conference which will be manned by various developer from Denmark, as well as a small group of developers from abroad. The event takes place on March 2 and March 3, with Gentoo being present on the 3rd. Please stop by the booth with your questions, as Gentoo will have representatives from the security team and the Release Coordinators for Alpha, IA64, and MIPS among the group, along with the User Relations project lead. For more information, see http://www.linuxforum.dk/. 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:
Gentoo Security is on hiatus this week due to no GLSA being released. 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 04 February 2007 and 11 February 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10407 currently open bugs: 16 are labeled 'blocker', 111 are labeled 'critical', and 435 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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