Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 16 April 2007It is once again time for the GWN to start recruiting more writers. As you may have noticed, the GWN has been rather thin the last few weeks and it has had a hard time getting published on time. In an attempt to try to alleviate the problems with the GWN, the staff is seeking more writers from the community to help write for the GWN. To become a GWN writer, you only need to be able to write in English and pay attention on an email alias to assist in creating a cooperative environment between the GWN developer staff and the volunteer writers. If you're interested in joining the GWN, or even just occasionally writing an article or two, please contact the GWN staff at gwn-feedback@gentoo.org. On April 12th, the Gentoo Council held their monthly meeting. The agenda was as follows:
A summary of the meeting was posted by Mike Frysinger on the gentoo-dev mailing list, and the full logs can be found linked on the Council project page. Gentoo Linux first distribution to run on Apple TV Gentoo developer Edgar Hucek, also from the mactel-linux project, was the first person who managed to boot Linux on an Intel-based AppleTV. In the installation guides which emerged soon after, Gentoo is used as the distribution of choice. Our distribution was chosen due to the fact that it is one of the more portable Linux distributions and, as such, is often one of the first to be ported to new devices (for example, Gentoo was the first Linux distribution to work on the Intel-based Macs). The kernel is booted from a custom loader, which is loaded by boot.efi - AppleTV's bootloader. At the time of writing, USB, Xorg's NV nVidia drivers, nVidia's propritary drivers, speedstep, wifi and sound all work from within Linux. baselayout-2 nears completion It has recently been announced on Planet Gentoo by Roy Marples that baselayout-2 has neared completion. The current versions of baselayout are written in bash, which, although powerful, is relatively slow. UberLord has been converting RC from bash to C, which has resulted in a tremendous speed increase (init completion in a mere 2 seconds). The conversion from bash to C also removes the requirement of bash, which is a boon for embedded devices. 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:
DokuWiki: Cross-site scripting vulnerability DokuWiki is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting 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 08 April 2007 and 15 April 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 9954 currently open bugs: 13 are labeled 'blocker', 101 are labeled 'critical', and 363 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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